On Tue, 19 May 2009 23:31:01 +0100, Sharpe, Sam J wrote: > 2009/5/19 Beartooth <Beartooth@xxxxxxxxxxx>: >> On Mon, 18 May 2009 20:01:29 -0430, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: [....] >>> For now I don't see why anyone would need a special Fedora spin for >>> these machines. >> >> If that works on the 701 (which is a lot smaller, in every >> sense, >> and slower than the 1000), it'll be the best news in a month of >> Sundays. > > This is not an advert, merely an observation. > > I was very much impressed with Ubuntu Netbook Remix 9.04 on my 701. What > I liked (once I turned off all the jazzy stuff I don't need) was that > it was reasonably easy to slim the packages down without taking out huge > portions of the things I wanted. I think that for the stuff I needed on > this machine (web,terminal,movies) there were less cross-dependencies in > the Debian/Ubuntu packages and that made it easier to pick apart. Oddly enough, I find the same most of the time with Ubuntu and ubuntoid distros; it's one reason I keep trying them, and maybe the biggest -- along with the thought akin to yours, which I can't decide about, that when the time comes, my widow might find Ubuntu (or, more likely, CentOS) easier to use than Fedora. > It was by no means an easy install though. Well, for me it went onto the machine with almost no effort from me; but, as usual with me and ubuntoidiana, I didn't find it easy to live with when it was there. I even had trouble trying to get it to share, to the extent that I finally DBANned it and started over. -- Beartooth Staffwright, PhD, Neo-Redneck Linux Convert Remember I know precious little of what I am talking about. -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
