On Mon, 24 Aug 2009, Chris Tooley wrote:

> Hello all,
>
> 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