Jamie's Random Musings
Various thoughts and adventures, including but not limited to Video IM, Linux, Windows XP and Widows Vista, and various 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
