Re: [PLUG] Shopping for Netbook to run Linux. What's your fav Netbook for Linux and why?

2011-02-05 Thread John Jason Jordan
On Sat, 5 Feb 2011 00:14:19 -0800 Mike Connors dijo: >> >> If I was in the market for a netbook I'd look at the Motorola Atrix >> 4G. You can get a laptop dock for it that basically turns it into a >> netbook. When it's not a netbook its an Android 2.2 phone. Of course, >> if you don't need a pho

Re: [PLUG] Shopping for Netbook to run Linux. What's your fav Netbook for Linux and why?

2011-02-05 Thread Tony Schlemmer
On Friday 04 February 2011 20:37:06 Mike Connors wrote: > The 2 somewhat obvious choices are Asus Eeee pc and Acer Aspire One. Just > curious what other Netbooks people are running Linux on and what their > experience has been. I'll probably run my Linux of choice on it Sidux. > Unless there's a re

Re: [PLUG] Shopping for Netbook to run Linux. What's your fav Netbook for Linux and why?

2011-02-05 Thread Mike Connors
> > Not knowing what Sidux is I went a-googling. > Important News: sidux is dead, long live aptosid > http://sidux.com/index.php?module=News&func=display&sid=616 > > Yes, "Aptosid". Boy that just rolls off the tongue and makes you want to tell all your geek buds about the cool distro you run, eh. I

Re: [PLUG] Shopping for Netbook to run Linux. What's your fav Netbook for Linux and why?

2011-02-05 Thread Michael Rasmussen
On Fri, Feb 04, 2011 at 08:37:06PM -0800, Mike Connors wrote: > The 2 somewhat obvious choices are Asus Eeee pc and Acer Aspire One. Just > curious what other Netbooks people are running Linux on and what their > experience has been. I'll probably run my Linux of choice on it Sidux. Not knowing wh

Re: [PLUG] Shopping for Netbook to run Linux. What's your fav Netbook for Linux and why?

2011-02-05 Thread Jason Barnett
I am using a Toshiba N305 and am quite happy with it. Commonly get between 7-9 hours of battery life, easy memory and hard drive upgrades. It has a 10" screen and a nice, almost full ( for a laptop) sized keyboard. It had a couple of glitches with the backlight not being adjustable and it hesita

Re: [PLUG] Shopping for Netbook to run Linux. What's your fav Netbook for Linux and why?

2011-02-05 Thread Mike Connors
> > If I was in the market for a netbook I'd look at the Motorola Atrix 4G. > You can get a laptop dock for it that basically turns it into a > netbook. When it's not a netbook its an Android 2.2 phone. Of course, > if you don't need a phone, then it becomes too expensive for a netbook. > At $500 f

Re: [PLUG] Shopping for Netbook to run Linux. What's your fav Netbook for Linux and why?

2011-02-05 Thread John Jason Jordan
On Fri, 4 Feb 2011 20:37:06 -0800 Mike Connors dijo: >The 2 somewhat obvious choices are Asus Eeee pc and Acer Aspire One. >Just curious what other Netbooks people are running Linux on and what >their experience has been. I'll probably run my Linux of choice on it >Sidux. Unless there's a really