Well I can speak from personal experience, being that I own an Eee PC (although I have a 701). The Xandros built in OS was very quick and booted in literally 15-20 seconds, but menu system among other things (it's ugly) forced me to seek other distros. For a while I used eeeXubuntu, which had some modifications of your standard Xubuntu install to work better with Eee and have since moved to Ubuntu Eee (http://www.ubuntu-eee.com ) and am currently running it with quite some satisfaction. I can't seem to figure out how to get hibernate to work, but other than that it's great. I'd be glad to bring my Eee to the next meeting and you can take a look at it.
On Sep 16, 2008, at 2:08 PM, Douglass Clem wrote: > I'm considering buying an eeePC 900, which is the model with an 8.9" > screen, 1.6gz cpu, 16gb SSD drive and 1gb of ram. I've heard that > the default Xandros distro on it makes it blazing fast, with > excellent battery life. However, I would much rather run Ubuntu on > it, particulary this version. Why exactly is it that Xandros on this > machine is so much faster? I figured that part of it might be the > kernel, so I figured I could install the Xandros kernel to help > speed things up. Would this work, and is there any other ways to > make Ubuntu run close to the same speed on the 900? --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "NLUG" group. To post to this group, send email to nlug-talk@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/nlug-talk?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---