G thanks...next thing I ll do next year :-) I ll be back with feedback on this. By the way...hugs to everyone and lets have a good 2010! feddds 2009/12/30 g <[log in to unmask]>: > feddds wrote: >> Hi everybody, >> >> I am very glad using SL. > > i am enjoying it, myself. > >> Our business is to program apps for our customers on opensource platforms. >> Most of programmer have CentOS on their desktops. But in my case, I am a >> marketing person and I find CentOS a little bit hard for me. > > if you are already using scientific linux and you do not like centos, then > by all means, stay with scientific linux. one less distribution that you > will have to learn and keep up with. > >> One issue remaining is to make SL run on my asus eeepc. Anyone tried? > > can not say that i have, but if i had an eeepc, first thing i would do is > install scientific linux on it. > > from what i have read on fedora tsl, there are a lot of fedora users running > fedora on eeepc's and several are using usb hard drives for booting. > > unless scientific linux does not have drivers for some special hardware, like > solid state drive, which it should, as i can not see red hat not having the > ability, i see no reason why there would be any difference. > >> Would SL boot from usb-drive on this type of machine? > > if bios allows booting from a usb hard drive, then any flavor of linux > should be able to if it has usb ability. > > > give it a try, who knows, you may start a new trend. :) > > > later. > > -- > > peace out. > > tc,hago. > > g > . > > **** > in a free world without fences, who needs gates. > ** > help microsoft stamp out piracy - give linux to a friend today. > ** > to mess up a linux box, you need to work at it. > to mess up an ms windows box, you just need to *look* at it. > ** > learn linux: > 'Rute User's Tutorial and Exposition' http://rute.2038bug.com/index.html > 'The Linux Documentation Project' http://www.tldp.org/ > 'LDP HOWTO-index' http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/HOWTO-INDEX/index.html > 'HowtoForge' http://howtoforge.com/ > **** > >