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Jon Peatfield wrote:
> On Mon, 24 Aug 2009, Chris Tooley wrote:
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>> Hello all,
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>> I'm helping to do some research for coworker of mine, and I was wondering if
>> anyone has tried to install SL on a netbook yet? And if so, what are your
>> experiences?
>>
>> We're currently looking at an HP Mini 110 as a possible option, and I know
>> there is a "Mobile Internet" version which is built on linux, but is
>> everything working on SL? I'd assume so, but I would like to have some
>> confirmation...?
>>
>> Are all netbooks pretty much a safe bet?
>
> As with all laptops I'd be very dubious about it working with SL (or RHEL
> or any other 'enterprise' linux distribution). These distributions are
> aimed at stability and hence are somewhat conservative about having the
> 'latest' versions of software. Our experience with all kinds of laptops
> (including various netbooks), is that to support the graphics chipsets and
> things like the networking and wireless you are often better off with a
> 'leading edge' distribution - such as Fedora or Ubuntu.
>
> We recently got a few S9e Lenovo netbooks (now sadly no longer available),
> and I was quite surprised that the Ubuntu 9.04 live image (PXE booted)
> supported pretty much all the hardware out-of-the-box. Those particular
> netbooks came with Windows XP only and since they are only being used for
> note taking we have left them as-is...
>
> -- Jon
I haven't had too much luck with Scientific Linux, except SL 5.3, on
netbooks. But I have been able to use Fedora 11 on every one that I've
come across thus far, and it's recognized everything on them and just
worked.
Troy
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