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Troy Dawson wrote:
> 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
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> 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
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