Best netbook OS

giftgrub

any suggestions for a netbook os?

Its an asus eee pc.

I'm running Easypeasy but there are some issues with the screen dimensions...

plus i'm bored and want to play about...

Naikon

I use NetBSD on my netbook. It can be a little rough around the edges, but uses feck all Hard disk space/resources(600 megs space on default install). Great for really limited systems/embedded.
Honestly, I like the feel and layout of the system. You will learn a good bit more about Unix too. Ubuntu derived distros are great, but they can be a little bloated. The new Gnome shell is horrible

jonathan11

I bought an asus eee netbook and struggled to get redhat to work on it.
Installed ok but could get a wireless card driver.
As far as I know they bundle a linux OS with it in some countries if you can get your hands on that DVD...

Stuxnet

http://www.ubuntu.com/netbook

syklops

Fedora seems to give good support for the hardware.

http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Eee_PC

Add in XFCE or one of the other lightweight desktop managers, and then customise the sh*t out of it. I have used a lot of netbook-tweaked OS's and desktop managers, and never liked any of them.

Dathai

I usually stick on xUbuntu on any netbooks I'm given to "make-it-go-faster-willya". Lightweight OS, pretty stripped down, good package management and easy to use.

ambasite

i am running Crunchbang (salter) on an eeepc 900 at the moment:

http://crunchbanglinux.org/

niallb

giftgrub wrote: »

any suggestions for a netbook os?

Its an asus eee pc.

I'm running Easypeasy but there are some issues with the screen dimensions...

plus i'm bored and want to play about...

Which Asus EEE PC is it?
They've called every second machine they've ever produced that.
There are model numbers too.

Easy Peasy is nice enough. I'll suggest jolicloud to get best use out a netbook
at the moment, but there are lots of choices.
Ubuntu netbook remix at the moment crawls on some EEEs,
and easy peasy is a rebuild of the ubuntu netbook remix from when it worked.

Bluefrog

I'd recommend lUbuntu - lightweight desktop, power and support of Ubuntu.

Telchak

Bluefrog wrote: »

I'd recommend lUbuntu

(Almost the only thing I ever post in the Unix forums )

I've found Xubuntu to be much quicker and much more usable than Lubuntu. Made a 7 year old laptop perfectly usable (:

Galen

Ubuntu +1

Bluefrog

Thing about lubuntu over xubuntu is there is a smaller learning curve IMHO when a user is coming from windows or full ubuntu in terms of the user interface.

I also find lubuntu somewhat prettier out of the box but that's a subjective thing

Telchak wrote: »

(Almost the only thing I ever post in the Unix forums )

I've found Xubuntu to be much quicker and much more usable than Lubuntu. Made a 7 year old laptop perfectly usable (:

musiknonstop

You could also try MeeGo.

https://www.meego.com/devices/netbook

Jagera

ditto Ubuntu Netbook. However I have stood firm in not upgrading from 10.04 to 10.10 yet.. I tried but did not like the Unity interface. I'll go eventually though.

Naikon

+1 Ubuntu

grimm2005

Im on an Acer Aspire A110 netbook with 8gb SSD and 512mb ram. I've used ubuntu netbook and jolicloud and have found both to be extremely slow. The base linpus linux lite works perfectly but its extremely limited and uncustomisable.

Anyone any ideas which OS I should try?

Jackobyte

Peppermint if you don't mind cloud-based computing.

Galen

or Jolicloud