John R Pierce wrote:
On 4/15/2015 12:55 PM, m.roth@5-cent.us wrote:
I've got a netbook, circe 2009. When I got it, not that I was wild about ubuntu, but there was specifically an ubuntu netbook remix. Well, it's a few years later - has anyone put CentOS (6, preferably) on a netbook, and were there any problems?
'netbook' is a mostly obsolete category, they were just low power 1st/2nd generation Atom 10" notebooks with 1024x600 screens and 1-2GB max ram, painfully slow. They've been largely superseded by the Ultrabook category of 13" ultra-slim ultra-light notebooks.
Right. And it serves me perfectly well when I'm travelling, for email and websurfing. Why is it that I should go out to spend $$$$ on a larger, ultralight notebook, before this one dies? It does *everything* I want from it... and it cost me something like $40 (never before in my life had I heard of a phone company giving out promotional items....)
I'd expect the only major compatibility issue with any of these would be the wifi adapter. Most of these small format consumer machines don't even have an ethernet port. Otherwise, they are pretty much bog stock Intel based architecture machines, using Intel integral graphics on the newer Core i3 Mobile processors.
Original HP, and yes, it has an RJ45 as well as wifi. Sounds like I should follow the other thread's suggestion, and build a liveCD on a flash drive, and boot from there. I was just wondering if someone else had done this.
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