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katsmeat:
My everyday, carry-everywhere machine is an Eee 1000h netbook I found in a university dumpster some months ago - XP refused to boot. So I put Crunchbang on it and upgraded it both with a small SSD and some memory I had spare. I now use if for email and light Matlab development, even though the resulting numbers from the Matlab 'bench' command are somwhat painful.
The only real downside is the machine has a Norwegan keyboard - someday I'll get round to binding the Æ Ø and Å keys to something useful.
Of course, Crunchbang is no more. Disappointing as I really really liked it. Any suggestions as to where to go now? What's lightweight and similar? The SSD is big enough for several small Linuxes.
Stoon:
I upgraded to Linux Mint 17.2 on Saturday. It works fine enough on my laptop, but for some reason it's slightly flaky on my desktop. I'm currently doing a backup to downgrade my desktop back to 17.1. I should have done a backup BEFORE I upgraded to 17.2. Hindsight is 20/20.
Stoon:
--- Quote from: katsmeat on 14 Jun 2015, 15:49 ---My everyday, carry-everywhere machine is an Eee 1000h netbook I found in a university dumpster some months ago - XP refused to boot. So I put Crunchbang on it and upgraded it both with a small SSD and some memory I had spare. I now use if for email and light Matlab development, even though the resulting numbers from the Matlab 'bench' command are somwhat painful.
The only real downside is the machine has a Norwegan keyboard - someday I'll get round to binding the Æ Ø and Å keys to something useful.
Of course, Crunchbang is no more. Disappointing as I really really liked it. Any suggestions as to where to go now? What's lightweight and similar? The SSD is big enough for several small Linuxes.
--- End quote ---
My old netbook eMachines 355 running an Atom N455 processor and 1GB RAM ran Linux Mint 17.1 32 bit no problems before it died. It's ever so slightly better performance-wise than your machine, but your machine is a lot more energy efficient.
http://www.cpu-world.com/Compare/710/Intel_Atom_N270_vs_Intel_Atom_N455.html
<shrug>
katsmeat:
--- Quote from: Stoon on 08 Jul 2015, 23:42 ---
--- Quote from: katsmeat on 14 Jun 2015, 15:49 ---My everyday, carry-everywhere machine is an Eee 1000h netbook I found in a university dumpster some months ago - XP refused to boot. So I put Crunchbang on it and upgraded it both with a small SSD and some memory I had spare. I now use if for email and light Matlab development, even though the resulting numbers from the Matlab 'bench' command are somwhat painful.
The only real downside is the machine has a Norwegan keyboard - someday I'll get round to binding the Æ Ø and Å keys to something useful.
Of course, Crunchbang is no more. Disappointing as I really really liked it. Any suggestions as to where to go now? What's lightweight and similar? The SSD is big enough for several small Linuxes.
--- End quote ---
My old netbook eMachines 355 running an Atom N455 processor and 1GB RAM ran Linux Mint 17.1 32 bit no problems before it died. It's ever so slightly better performance-wise than your machine, but your machine is a lot more energy efficient.
http://www.cpu-world.com/Compare/710/Intel_Atom_N270_vs_Intel_Atom_N455.html
<shrug>
--- End quote ---
A slightly depressing thing somebody pointed out to me is that his phone is at least an order of magnitude more powerful than the nebook.
But it's still useful enough for me to solder a appropriately sized plug onto a spare 12v power brick a couple of days ago, to replace the Eee's own psu which died on me.
hedgie:
I had been doing dist-upgrades on OpenSUSE for the past several versions, and had been dealing with quite a number of annoyances for some time now on my desktop. Instead of just doing a clean install and clearing out most of the dot files in ~/ , I decided to give Mint KDE a shot. I figured, "what the hell, should be easier to get the proprietary NVIDIA drivers, and maybe Pipelight will actually work properly"… I should have taken the installer as a bit of a warning, but pressed on. After a full backup, I even nuked the HDD that has ~/, and went through the pain of restoring everything. I am finding myself missing many of the features already.
Since then, I'm seriously considering the switch back, doing the clean install that I should have done in the first place. Probably will require another restore from backup. I can compile the gfx drivers myself. I'll keep giving Mint a try until next week, just to let myself get used to a different way of working, and see if I can overcome my habits and see if my "problems" from habituation can be overcome.
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