Netbook recommendation

[Mark Greenwood]

On Monday 16 Nov 2009 10:24:07 lanzen wrote:
> On Sunday 15 November 2009 16:26:05 Steffen Krapp wrote:
> 
> > I plan to buy a netbook and to install the new netbook-remix of
> > kubuntu. Has anybody a recommendation for a netbook?
> 
> I don't think that the kubuntu NR is ready yet.

No it's not "ready", in that it's not officially supported either by Canonical or by the KDE team (yet) but it does work and I've been using it for a while. It has a slimmed-down interface in the style of other netbook remixes, but whereas Ubuntu remix (and the awful Xandros crud that came preinstalled on my Aspire One) look like something out of a toy shop and don't provide anything in the way of new or interesting ideas, the KDE netbook remix actually has some interesting features and clever ideas that do actually make the netbook easier to use than if it had a 'standard' desktop on it. If I could do it I might even install it on my 'normal' laptop.

Mark

> 
> I do use with great satisfaction Kubuntu standard that, since karmic, is doing 
> really well on my eeepc 1000H/HE. Everything, or almost everything, works 
> OOTB. 
> 
> Surprisingly enough, at least in my opinion, Kubuntu std even fist better on 
> the tiny eeepc 4G than any Remix does except maybe for some configuration 
> windows that need to be moved about a lot.
> 
> But newer eeepc's  do have some issues with graphics and/or Wifi, 
> 
>