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[Doc Kinne <kinnerc@xxxxxxxxx>]

Mike (and the List):

On 03 May , 2009, at 10:06, Michael DePaulo wrote:
> Hmm, interesting. I wasn't aware of eeebuntu. At first I thought you  
> meant easy peasy (formerly Ubuntu Eee).
> http://www.geteasypeasy.com/

Seems like there are a lot of different distributions out there. More  
than I originally thought as well.

> Anyway, I very much like the Eee 1000HE that my friend has. If  
> you're in the US, you can often find it on sale for $350.

I was on the verge of getting one yesterday, in fact, for that exact  
price, but they were out of stock at that point. :-(

> BTW: Don't forget to reply to the entire list.


I thought I had, but obviously I hadn't. Thanks for the reminder.

To make this general to the rest of the folks here, because I'd like  
your comments as well, I am in the midst of moving to a Linux laptop.  
A few years ago I had a Dell Inspiron 7000 laptop that I used as a  
Linux testbed, i.e. was it actually possible for me to use Linux on a  
day-to-day basis. Largely it was. The problem I had was that I spent a  
month trying to get the wireless working on that laptop via an Orinoco  
Gold PCMCIA card. The incident, frankly, terrified me. My main  
production laptop was a Mac at that point and when its screen died a  
week before I was set to go to Cambridge for a week's research I was  
left with a decision: get a Linux laptop and hope that I wouldn't have  
a problem with the wireless, or get another Mac that I knew would  
work. I had to go with the Mac.

So now I'm in the position of wanting a netbook for communications as  
I travel around Boston. I have a Nokia N810 running the Linux-based  
Maemo and that's fine as far as it goes, but responding to emails on  
its keyboard doesn't work for me. So, I'm after something larger than  
it, but smaller and lighter than my MacBook. Thus I'm taking a hard  
look at the EeePCs

What has everyone else's experience been with regard to Linux on  
laptops?
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Richard "Doc" Kinne • Rikardo «Dokĉjo» KINNE, BA, MSc., AMAAS
<kinnerc @ gmail.com>
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- The Doctor
"Forests of the Dead," Doctor Who

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