[mdlug] Installing linux on a Net book

[jlk at osml.eu]

On 2013-08-13 17:53, Terry Freeman wrote:
> I have an older netbook that currently needed to be refreshed.  It 
> has
> windows xp right now but I'm to move over to a slim version of Linux. 
> All I
> need it to run is open office and a browser. It has an atom processer 
> and a
> gig of ram. What have lug members used and like for netbooks. 
> Normally I
> would try a few different ones to fund one that I like but having a 
> newborn
> at home dosent really lent to alot of free time.

I found my old 901 eeepc needed a refresh as the browser was quite out 
of date.  Went with Mint (Ubuntu).  I first tested it out with a "live" 
version of Mint on a USB thumbdrive.  Once I was sure that the h/w was 
supported I ran the install.  That was more than a year ago.  Still 
going strong.  YMMV