Troy Dawson wrote:
> Jon Peatfield wrote:
>> 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
> 
> 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

Thanks for all your input everyone! I'll try out SL 5.3 first on 
whichever netbook we decide, then I'll let you know the results :)

Thanks again,
-Chris