[Cialug] Linux on a netbook

[Dan Hockey]

I've upgraded my Dell Mini 1011 to 2gb ram 320gb hdd, and atherous b,g,n wireless.
I dual boot win7pro and ubuntu 10.10.
I've tried newer versions of ubuntu but unity 3d eye candy cut about an hour off the battery run time. It ran hotter and couldn't get lmsensors to read the internal temp sensors, that was the reason why I went back to 10.10-until I find something that works better.
-dan 


--- On Thu, 3/1/12, Nathan C. Smith <nathan.smith at ipmvs.com> wrote:

From: Nathan C. Smith <nathan.smith at ipmvs.com>
Subject: Re: [Cialug] Linux on a netbook
To: "'Central Iowa Linux Users Group'" <cialug at cialug.org>
Date: Thursday, March 1, 2012, 8:25 PM

Linux Mint might be an obvious one.  It seems to be gathering quite a following.

-Nate

-----Original Message-----
From: cialug-bounces at cialug.org [mailto:cialug-bounces at cialug.org] On Behalf Of Jeff Chapin
Sent: Thursday, March 01, 2012 4:47 PM
To: Central Iowa Linux Users Group
Subject: [Cialug] Linux on a netbook

Sorry about the cross posting, for those of you on the Cedar Lug mailing list.

All,

I have a Dell Mini 10v that I upgraded to 2GB of RAM a while back, and may be upgrading to an SSD in the near future, replacing the 60GB drive I currently have. I also replaced the Broadcom wireless card with an Intel one (when I did it, Intel was far better supported in Linux. I see now that the old chipset has some support...)

I multi-booted this device in the past, playing around:
1) The Ubuntu that came on it from Dell
2) Fedora KDE 14 (with the fedora-netbook kernel)
3) Moblin
4) Chromium

These are all older versions, and I have been playing around with newer versions on USB sticks.  Anyone have any recommendations on distros to try, or tweaks to make to make any given distro preform better on a netbook?

Let the flame war commence!

--
Jeff Chapin
President, CedarLug, retired
President, UNIPC, "I'll get around to it"
President, UNI Scuba Club
Senator, NISG, retired
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