Which OS for a netbook?

**abhibharti** · March 29th, 2010

I think ubuntu is perfect. Give a try.

**amitabhishek** · March 29th, 2010

Final(non beta) 2.1 version of Moblin is available for download and it works well on Intel chips (considering its a part Intel baby)...its fast and looks cool...give it a spin if you like.

**themarker0** · March 29th, 2010

Moblin, or do what i am doing. Install ubuntu with a light window manager.

**ibuclaw** · March 29th, 2010

Originally Posted by abhiroopb

Debian Testing? I tried Puppy a while back on my original laptop and besides the UI not being very pleasant it was a headache to find apps for. My "can't-live-without" apps include skype which means a debian or fedora based OS is the best option.

I second Debian Testing (codename 'Squeeze') for netbooks.

One or two quirks, but easily configured.

Regards
Iain

**anaconda** · March 29th, 2010

Normal ubuntu is best..

UNR was bigger, slower and more clumsy to use on my machine..
(what are they thinking?)
I thought that UNR would have been lighter and faster...

And dont get me started with the UNR forcing all windows to be full-screen, and difficult to make them smaller than full screen...

**KegHead** · March 29th, 2010

hi!

I've used 9.10 standard with my dell mini 9 with a great deal of success.

16 gb ssd hd, 2gb ram

KegHead

**snowpine** · March 29th, 2010

All of the major distros have good support for netbooks these days. Here is a great comparison of the pros and cons: http://distrowatch.com/dwres.php?resource=major

Personally I have Fedora (Gnome Desktop) on my Asus eee 900ha netbook, and I'm currently testing the new Alpha release of CrunchBang (based on Debian Squeeze with a stripped-down Xfce) on my Dell Mini 9.

**user1397** · March 29th, 2010

I recently bought a Dell Mini 10v netbook (I'm typing from it right now actually) and I wiped the ubuntu that came with it from Dell, and installed ubuntu 9.10 minimal and using some guide I found on the forums here I now have a very minimal Gnome setup, and I thoroughly enjoy it. I've actually already upgraded to Lucid and it works just fine.

**mamamia88** · March 29th, 2010

windows 7. ubuntu is fine if you can get wifi working correctly. when i ran ubuntu on mine with a realtek card i had to be practically next to the router to get a signal

**olaf-g** · April 2nd, 2010

I'm running lucid lynx beta 1 and I got everything running except the internal mic. I solved the issues with the wireless and the screen brightness control. With a kernel image after March 30 the power consumption is very well, almost never getting out of C4, battery lasts for 7 hours. As I am writing down my experiences and fixes in a blog you can find the exact steps over there:

http://linuxon1001p.blogspot.com

For wireless I use a self compiled native driver which was really not difficult to do and the brightnes issue is fixed completely including on screen notifications and auto dimming working.