John R Pierce wrote: > On 4/15/2015 12:55 PM, m.roth at 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 They've been largely superseded by the 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. mark