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

Michael Horne michael at wemoto.com
Thu Apr 16 09:43:17 UTC 2015


scratch that, I swapped the 2gb for 4gb. most people are amazed at the 
speed of it...

I managed to convert a few people to linux on their netbook recently and 
they will never turn back. great way to rejuvenate old hardware.

On 16/04/15 10:39, Michael Horne wrote:
> running a cheap Acer Aspire one 722, 2gb ram, dual core 1ghz, swapped
> the HDD for a SSD. it's running fedora 21 LXDE. it's fast, powerful
> enough for working on the move and boots / shuts down in about 10
> seconds flat.
>
> I also had Centos7 on here before but Fedora has better support for
> multimedia in my opinion.
>
> ran into one issue about waking the netbook after sleeping. ended up
> disabling it.
>
> On 15/04/15 20:55, 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?
>>
>>          mark
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