On Wed, Apr 15, 2015 at 05:46:56PM -0400, Fred Smith wrote: > On Wed, Apr 15, 2015 at 02:52:51PM -0600, Frank Cox wrote: > > On Wed, 15 Apr 2015 15:55:26 -0400 > > 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? > > > > I have an Acer Aspire One netbook. I use it every day. > > > > I had Centos 6 on it up until Centos 7 was released. Now I have Centos 7 on it. > > Me too, though before Centos-7 I was running Fedora 19. Everything works, > including the dedicated fn-<some key> functions. > > Mine is a dual-core Atom, so it's not quite as painfully slow as many of > the other netbooks. One thing I forgot to mention: I've bumped the RAM up to 2 gigs on both my netbooks, FYI. > I've also got an older Asus 901, originally shipped with their version of > Linux. Got tired of that hacked up and crippled linux and started trying > other distros. found that Fedora worked pretty well, back at F10, though > some things required tweaking. There was a guy (no longer recall a name) > who was building custom Fedora kernels specifically with the 901 in mind, > that enabled the extra goodies that didn't quite work right. I ran that, > thru F10-F14, until F15 came out--took a look at Gnome 3.x and had to > run to the toilet to throw up. disgusting. Right now, it is sitting here, > running F20 with MATE desktop, operating a webcam for me. > > You don't say which netbook it is... the earliest Asus models came with > severely limited storage. There are people who've managed to put some > relatively modern linux on those, though I don't really know how they > managed to shoehorn that all in. google is your friend. > > -- > ---- Fred Smith -- fredex at fcshome.stoneham.ma.us ----------------------------- > I can do all things through Christ > who strengthens me. > ------------------------------ Philippians 4:13 ------------------------------- > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos -- ---- Fred Smith -- fredex at fcshome.stoneham.ma.us ----------------------------- The Lord detests the way of the wicked but he loves those who pursue righteousness. ----------------------------- Proverbs 15:9 (niv) -----------------------------