I run regular GNOME (Ubuntu 10.04) on my 900. It came with XP, but it is dog. It runs fine but it takes too much maintenance for me. On Ubuntu I change icon and font sizes (smaller) and get rid of the bottom bar.
Roy On 18 August 2010 06:48, Scott <[email protected]> wrote: > > > On Wed, Aug 18, 2010 at 04:25:58AM -0400, J wrote: > > On Wed, Aug 18, 2010 at 00:34, Scott > > <[email protected]<scottro%40nyc.rr.com>> > wrote: > > > > > > I have FreeBSD on my 1000HE, but it took more work to get it going than > > > it did with any of the mainstream Linux distributions. > > > > I would say that you are a sick, sick man, but yesterday I installed > > and ran a small UEC cloud across a couple VBox VMs on my laptop... > > what is wrong with me? > > > > New boss, would like a BSD box or two, and due to this job, I've had no > time to play with it. When he said that, my two co-workers said, "I > don't think I've seen Scott this happy in years." It's my first love, > and of course, one of the things it (generally) has over Linux is the > documentation, which makes the more complex things much easier. I > haven't, however, had much time to work with it, even at home, for a > couple of years. > > It actually wasn't hard, it's just that it might be difficult for a > newcomer, and due to the hplip port being somewhat broken, can't use it > with my scanner, but aside from that--took only a little longer to set > up than Fedora, though longer than Ubuntu. (Fedora, I do a minimal > install and have to add everything afterwards, as I customize it > heavily.) > > > -- > Scott Robbins > PGP keyID EB3467D6 > ( 1B48 077D 66F6 9DB0 FDC2 A409 FA54 EB34 67D6 ) > gpg --keyserver pgp.mit.edu --recv-keys EB3467D6 > > Angel: Acathla turned to stone, as demons sometimes do, and > was buried > where neither man nor demon would want to look...unless, of course, > they're > putting up low-rent housing. > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] ------------------------------------ To unsubscribe from this list, please email [email protected] & you will be removed.Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/LINUX_Newbies/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/LINUX_Newbies/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: [email protected] [email protected] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [email protected] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
