Warren Young wrote: > Beartooth wrote: > >>> Why do you want CentOS on an EeePC ? >>> >> I have a strong if perhaps irrational preference for the .rpm >> family >> > > Me, too, and it's rational in my case. I've experienced the whole range > of both sets of tools, from the ground up. RPMs are simpler to build > than DEBs, and an rpm/yum-based system is easier to maintain than a > dpkg/apt-based one, considering just packaging issues. It's true that I > have many more years experience with RPM based systems, but I've been > using Ubuntu now for about a year and a half, and my opinion isn't > shifting much any more. > > I think much of the hype about how great the Debian packaging system is > came from the days before they adopted yum, so Debian fans could point > to apt-get and say "Isn't it great to be able to install packages from > the net directly from the command line?" Sure, once upon a time it was, > but today, the main distinction I draw between the two sets of tools is > that the Debian tools are more complex with no compensating benefit. > (There are even some things the simpler Red Hattish tools can do that > the Debian ones can't, easily. rpm -qa, for one.) > > But, enough of the advocacy rant. Though I use CentOS far more often > than I do Ubuntu, there are a few places where Ubuntu simply works > better. One of those places is on my Eee 1000. Take it from an RPM > fan: it's a poor reason to prefer CentOS for your netbook, unless your > goal is to feed patches back to Red Hat for future versions of the OS. > > >> speed of boot becomes a major criterion. >> > > Ubuntu 9.04 greatly improved the boot speed relative to previous > versions of the OS. > > Separate from that effort, but speeding disk-heavy activities like > booting still further, Ubuntu 9.04 also includes ext4 support. You have > to partition manually to enable it, but I recommend that for netbooks > anyway because that's also the only way to avoid having a swap > partition. Swapping to flash is loony. > Maybe, maybe not. First my system is only 1Gb. Kind of on the 'thin' side, but this is a Netbook! But more importantly is Hibernate to swap. I use this regularly. Suspend eats up your battery. > Between these improvements and a few tweaks to the automatic service > startup list, my 1000 goes from the BIOS screen to a desktop in under a > minute. I'm running the netbook remix version. > > Ubuntu 9.04 supports the Eee's power management features, too, so you > can sleep it and wake it back up reasonably quickly. > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > >