Thinking about it, another speed boost may come from the solid-state disk. I have no idea how throughput compares to a traditional hard-drive though.
Rich Douglass Clem wrote: > I'm considering buying an eeePC 900 > <http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16834220367>, > 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 > <http://ubuntu-eee.com>. 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? > > Douglass Clem > crashsystems.net <http://crashsystems.net> > Public Key: http://crashsystems.net/pubkey.asc > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
