Again while on holiday, I took my ASUS 4G Surf with me.  Because of its
compact size, it was an easy fit as airline carry on luggage.  I left my
Dell laptop home, which would have been considered as an additional
item.  Sent out several work related E-mails, browsed the net using the
hotel's wifi.  Kept track of my E-bay listings.

All this under Ubuntu 9.10 Netbook Remix.

Life is good.

-- 
HPT

On Fri, 03 Sep 2010 07:43:40 -0600, High Plains Thumper wrote:

> Again while on holiday, I took my ASUS 4G Surf with me.  Because of its
> compact size, it was an easy fit as airline carry on luggage.  I left my
> Dell laptop home, which would have been considered as an additional
> item.  Sent out several work related E-mails, browsed the net using the
> hotel's wifi.  Kept track of my E-bay listings.
> 
> All this under Ubuntu 9.10 Netbook Remix.
> 
> Life is good.

My netbook is so awesome. The *one* thing I have against it is that my 
Facebook games (which require Flash) run very slow. Playable, but slow.

When I switched from Ubuntu's Netbook Remix/Edition to LXDE, things feel 
even peppier. I've kept GNOME on the larger laptop that's in my private 
piano teaching studio, but LXDE has become a fast favorite of mine.

Life *is* good.

On 03/09/2010 15:29, An Old Friend wrote:

>
> When I switched from Ubuntu's Netbook Remix/Edition to LXDE, things feel
> even peppier.

I tried LXDE on my main laptop but couldn't find any "multi-user" 
mode....is there one?

On Fri, 03 Sep 2010 16:31:46 +0100, Gordon wrote:

> On 03/09/2010 15:29, An Old Friend wrote:
> 
> 
>> When I switched from Ubuntu's Netbook Remix/Edition to LXDE, things
>> feel even peppier.
> 
> I tried LXDE on my main laptop but couldn't find any "multi-user"
> mode....is there one?

As far as I know, almost all flavors of Linux are able to boot into a 
full multiuser mode console login (Runlevel 3), from where you can 
manually start X11, instead of booting directly into it. I just tried the 
technique at 

http://www.bleepingcomputer.com/forums/topic42839.html

and was able to get into full multiuser mode after removing lxdm.

I loaded it back in and changed it back to Runlevel 5 (X11).

An Old Friend wrote:
> High Plains Thumper wrote:
> 
>> All this under Ubuntu 9.10 Netbook Remix. Life is good.
> 
> My netbook is so awesome. The *one* thing I have against it is that
> my Facebook games (which require Flash) run very slow. Playable, but
> slow.
> 
> When I switched from Ubuntu's Netbook Remix/Edition to LXDE, things
> feel even peppier. I've kept GNOME on the larger laptop that's in my
> private piano teaching studio, but LXDE has become a fast favorite of
> mine.
> 
> Life *is* good.

I haven't checked to see if there are other netbook remixes designed
around the 4G's 640x400 screen.  YouTube videos in flash run fine.  LXDE
ought to pep things up, but this netbook I have still runs fine with
9.10 NR.  For now until they phase out 9.10 has been more than
satisfactory, and a better choice than the OEM Linux version that was
installed previous.

One big advantage has been its form factor, and I like the secure of
Linux for financial transactions and on-line shopping.

-- 
HPT

Verily I say unto thee, that An Old Friend spake thusly:
> On Fri, 03 Sep 2010 07:43:40 -0600, High Plains Thumper wrote:
> 
>> Again while on holiday, I took my ASUS 4G Surf with me.  Because of
>> its compact size, it was an easy fit as airline carry on luggage.
>> I left my Dell laptop home, which would have been considered as an
>> additional item.  Sent out several work related E-mails, browsed
>> the net using the hotel's wifi.  Kept track of my E-bay listings.
>> 
>> All this under Ubuntu 9.10 Netbook Remix.
>> 
>> Life is good.
> 
> My netbook is so awesome. The *one* thing I have against it is that
> my Facebook games (which require Flash) run very slow. Playable, but
> slow.
> 
> When I switched from Ubuntu's Netbook Remix/Edition to LXDE, things
> feel even peppier. I've kept GNOME on the larger laptop that's in my
> private piano teaching studio, but LXDE has become a fast favorite of
> mine.
> 
> Life *is* good.

My laptop needed to go in for repairs (dead inverter) and was away so
long that I ended up buying a netbook just to "tide me over".

The laptop came back some time ago, but other than checking it to see
if it was OK, I haven't used it since.

It's amazing how loud a laptop's fan sounds after using a netbook. It
does everything the laptop does with less energy, cost and noise, and
weighs next to nothing.

/Netbooks/ are good :)

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On 2010-09-03, Homer <usenet@slated.org> wrote:
> Verily I say unto thee, that An Old Friend spake thusly:
>> On Fri, 03 Sep 2010 07:43:40 -0600, High Plains Thumper wrote:
>> 
>>> Again while on holiday, I took my ASUS 4G Surf with me.  Because of
>>> its compact size, it was an easy fit as airline carry on luggage.
>>> I left my Dell laptop home, which would have been considered as an
>>> additional item.  Sent out several work related E-mails, browsed
>>> the net using the hotel's wifi.  Kept track of my E-bay listings.
>>> 
>>> All this under Ubuntu 9.10 Netbook Remix.
>>> 
>>> Life is good.
>> 
>> My netbook is so awesome. The *one* thing I have against it is that
>> my Facebook games (which require Flash) run very slow. Playable, but
>> slow.
>> 
>> When I switched from Ubuntu's Netbook Remix/Edition to LXDE, things
>> feel even peppier. I've kept GNOME on the larger laptop that's in my
>> private piano teaching studio, but LXDE has become a fast favorite of
>> mine.
>> 
>> Life *is* good.
>
> My laptop needed to go in for repairs (dead inverter) and was away so
> long that I ended up buying a netbook just to "tide me over".
>
> The laptop came back some time ago, but other than checking it to see
> if it was OK, I haven't used it since.
>
> It's amazing how loud a laptop's fan sounds after using a netbook. It
> does everything the laptop does with less energy, cost and noise, and
> weighs next to nothing.
>
> /Netbooks/ are good :)


My eeepc701 currently has a 19inch monitor plugged into its VGA socket
and has a remote keyboard and mouse combo... and lots of USB and SDHC
storage (I'm getting a drive caddy on Monday so I can plug in my 1TB
Western Digital that was formerly in my old Pentium desktop that
unceremoniously died on me last week. This netbook has 2Gig of memory
and while the atom processor is a bit slow, the memory helps it along.

It works really well and is extremely low powered and quiet.

I'm not looking at replacing the desktop but I might buy my wife a new
laptop for Christmas. The eeepc can keep her happy until then.

Netbooks are the real shit... the bee's knees!

-- 
Regards,

Gregory.
Gentoo Linux - Penguin Power