Comments on: What OS is on Your Netbook?

By: gorkon

gorkon — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 14:12:48 +0000

Could not stand the Xandros on my Eee PC. I may buy another preinstalled Linux netbook, but I would probably distro hop.

By: gorkon

gorkon — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 14:11:28 +0000

I love Linux Mint on my Asus 1000HE. It is handy and has less setup then regular Ubuntu. I prefer a full desktop OS on my netbook as it is more flexible. At least until the new Karmic NBR goes live.

By: steve walton

steve walton — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 12:17:02 +0000

running Mint 7 on my eeepc901 – updated kernel with con kolivas bfs and a few other tweaks -fast and snappy, no complaints

By: Sam

Sam — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 12:14:48 +0000

Dual booting Windows 7 RC1 and Linux Mint

By: Sam

Sam — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 06:50:20 +0000

Windows 7 has been officially available to most (or all?) MSDN subscribers for a few weeks now…

By: Ian Tindale

Ian Tindale — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 06:39:17 +0000

A couple of days ago on my Acer Aspire One (8GB SSD) I just overwrote the Ubuntu Netbook Remix 9.04 that’s been on there for the past few months and put on the new alpha 6 of Karmic Kubuntu Netbook – it’s, well, it’s quite different. It’s probably in the direction of Moblin, only I never got on with Moblin for some reason even though I really wanted to and was all for the decisions they’d made. Try Karmic Kubuntu Netbook and see what you think. I’m still not quite sure it’ll stay, but it’s a very interesting ride so far.

As for sticking with the original Acer Linpus Lite, no – I’ll probably never return to that, it’ll never get updated enough now. It’s tantamount to a frozen 2 year old distro that worked extremely well.

By: Decade

Decade — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 02:30:07 +0000

Well, you don’t need the whole range of Linux distribution options. I’m mildly curious about how many people stick to the OEM’s Linux distribution, or switch to a different one.

By: jared

jared — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 01:40:24 +0000

i run eeebuntu netbook remix on my eee pc 900a. it runs like a champ.

By: BPI Sell out

BPI Sell out — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 19:51:04 +0000

Ubuntu all the way… Win 7 is too slow, winxp will kill any SSDs eventually, and an EEE with xandros is just a bit of a weird install!

By: gmazin

gmazin — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 19:20:27 +0000

I run Windows 7. Windows XP was a bit faster but all the new features make the slight speed loss worth it (I tend to underclock to save battery life; Win 7 is perfect at 1.6ghz)

By: Ricky B.

Ricky B. — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 17:52:35 +0000

I run an updated version of the default Ubuntu that came with my Mini 9 primarily. I tried OSX, but was running almost everything inside X11.app anyway… I just prefer Linux, I guess. :)

By: dirtymicrobe

dirtymicrobe — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 17:48:26 +0000

Eeebuntu on my 1000HE with a bunch of exotic customization (people don’t know what OS it is when they look at it.) I may set up a dual-boot with Jolicloud as an experiment.

By: Kamal DS

Kamal DS — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 17:29:52 +0000

Triple booting on my Aspire One D250:

1) EEEbuntu 3.0 base: My main OS
2) Windows Vista Ultimate: Heavily tweaked and running like a champ
3) Windows XP: For legacy apps

By: ZSX

ZSX — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 17:13:03 +0000

My MSI Wind is dual booting XP and Ubuntu Netbook Remix while my Dell Mini 9 is dual booting OS X and Moblin. I use UNR and OS X respectively as the primary OSes.

By: JM

JM — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 16:05:49 +0000

Believe me I want to put Windows 7 on my U810, but the 800 MHz processor vs your HP Mini 1000 1.6 GHz processor is the reason I am thinking twice. Now if I had a U820, that would be a different story.

By: Derek

Derek — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 15:54:22 +0000

Bitter much?

Yes my Mini came with XP and I have three copies of Win7 pre-ordered. OSX wasn’t legal but it was more of a trial run and I already removed it.

Win7 will perform better with a SSD, too. It’s not just Linux so get off your high horse.