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Re: [News] GNU/Linux Has Many Viable Choices for Sub-notebooks

Roy Schestowitz wrote:

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> ____/ wispygalaxy on Friday 15 May 2009 19:22 : \____
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>> I always hear that people replace Xandros and use something else.  Poor
>> Xandros haha.
> 
> I've met a person who wanted the Xandros distribution on it even though he
> tried other distributions and Windows XP on it.

I knew that there were some Xandros fans out there!  ;)

>>> Hands on: Running Windows 7 on a netbook
>>> 
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>>> | Performance wasn't the only problem I came across. For example, I was
>>> | unable to perform two network-related tasks at once. For example, if I
>>> | copied a file from a network server or watched a YouTube video, life
>>> | was fine. But if I tried to do both things at once, I ended up with a
>>> | frozen system.
>>> |
>>> | [...]
>>> |
>>> | I experienced several difficulties running popular applications on the
>>> | Dell Mini 9. Windows 7's built-in applications, such as Media Center,
>>> | felt slow to respond. Other apps behaved sluggishly as well. For
>>> | example, Microsoft Word 2003 took 27 seconds to launch on the Mini 9;
>>> | it took only 11 seconds on the HP EliteBook 2530p.
>>> |
>>> | Some problems, such as abrupt slowdowns when trying to run Microsoft
>>> | Office 2003, Office 2007 and Quicken 2008, were clearly caused by
>>> | memory problems. There simply wasn't enough RAM to run them
>>> | effectively. When I tried to run two or more major applications at the
>>> | same time, the performance dropped from merely miserable to "Is this
>>> | thing still on?"
>>> |
>>> | [...]
>>> |
>>> | If you must have Windows on a netbook, XP Home SP3 is still the better
>>> | choice over Windows 7 -- at least, for now. And, even though Microsoft
>>> | is doing its best to kill off XP, it looks like the PC makers aren't
>>> | going to let Microsoft put XP out to pasture after all.
>>> `----
>> 
>> Oh dear.  I guess this is why Windows 7 has that "XP mode".
> 
> Not for sub-notebooks. Too fat.

I want something speedy and slim on a netbook.  It's going to be a Linux
distro.  :)


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