Jamie's Random Musings
Various thoughts and adventures, including but not limited to Linux, Windows XP and Widows Vista, and assorted bits of hardware new and old.
Wednesday 24 June 2009, 10:11 AM
New and Updated Distributions on Ant (the Dual Atom nettop)
- Moblin: There is a new Beta available, and it includes significant fixes and enhancements.
- SimplyMEPIS 8.0.06: As usual, installing this was dead easy, and it works just great. If you aren't a fan of Ubuntu and its derivatives, MEPIS is an excellent alternative.
- Linux Mint 7 "Gloria": Again, installing it was dead easy, it looks and works great. If you are a fan of Ubuntu and its derivatives, and you want a distribution with most of the best add-ons already installed, you definitely need to look at Linux Mint.
- Ubuntu (including the Netbook Remix): A comment to my recent posting about UNR on an Eee PC led me to installing the "ubuntu-restricted-extras" package, to get a number of useful add-ons and plug-ins all installed at once. Good stuff.
So, as it stands now, Ant multi-boots the following:
- Ubuntu 9.04 "Jaunty Jackalope"
- Mandriva One 2009.1 (Spring)
- openSuSE 11.1
- Fedora 11 "Leonidas"
- Moblin 2.0 Beta
- Ubuntu 9.04 Netbook Remix
- Linux Mint 7 "Gloria"
- SimplyMEPIS 8.0.06
jw 24/6/2009
PreviousComments on this post
Quite a list of distros, but out of the bunch I will have to say my preference, as of now, is Mandriva 2009. Ubunto is the fastest booting, and I have tried all the rest. Eventually I'm thinking Moblin will end up on my netbook, as it is the only one that everything worked. The rest I had problems with sound, web cam and WIFI. The only thing I'm certain of is it WON"T be windows.
Hi Ator, thanks for reading and commenting as always. It's a funny thing with Mandriva, it was one of my favorite distributions on both of my laptops and both of my netbooks - but on the nettop it seems to have a bit of a problem with the Intel 950 graphic controller. Some or all of the screen background gets completely distorted when pop-up menus or other such windows appear!
jw
