[CentOS] Related to the new laptop question: CentOS on a netbook?

[Fred Smith]

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.
> 
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