which Linux distribution for a netbook?
 

hello.

my netbook a Toshiba NB 550D
AMD C-60 APU 1GHZ with graphics in CPU.
2.0GB RAM, 200GB harddrive.

3 months before i installed Fedora on my Netbook, but it never runed properly. I made a 2 partition configuration Windows/Fedora.
While on Fedora, the Netbook runed very slowly. The CPU had on fedora also a higher temperature by ~15K (74°C).
Since i didnt had the time to play with it i used windows. But now i'm thinking again of using Linux. But i think it would be the best to install another Linux distribution on my netbook.

But which one would be good?
Open Suse? i need the netbook for surfing, calculating, r project and writing. just small scientific stuff.

greetings

Have a look and try Fuduntu since you seem to prefer rpm distros.

You might be pleasantly surprised

http://www.fuduntu.org/wiki/index.ph...C_Netbooks.2C_...

I'd endorse that: Fuduntu has been prepared to save power on laptops. Some of the problem might have come from the fact that Fedora avoids proprietary drivers in favour of open source, which don't always work as well.

I run Fuduntu on my netbook (Asus EEE 900ha).

I'm running SalixOS--Fluxbox on my netbook. It works like a champ.

It's not *.deb distro, but slapt-get is similar to apt-get.

Salix is a good distro to try out. I run Mageia 2 (Gnome) on mine. I've had it installed since Mageia 1 and no issues. It optimize itself during installation for laptops!

so on Meagie 2 for example, will i be able to use same programs like on other distros like ubuntu or fedora?

greetings

Yes, you should be able to use the same programs. Underneath, Linux is Linux. If you are

It appears that Mageia comes will all the major desktop environments and window managers, so whatever you are used to using should be available. You can learn more here: http://www.mageia.org/en/2/ See the "Release Notes" section.

Your specs are much better than. Yes, you will be able to run the same type of programs with Mageia as you do with those mention. Mga is a fork of Mandriva/Mandrake(rpm), but now is controlled my the community more than a company.

I didn't mention it but I believe now Mageia 2, the latest stable branch, is now using Gnome 3 instead of Gnome 2. But it does come with KDE by default and offer other DE/WM such as Xfce, Openbox, Fluxbox and others.

i recommend linux mint for netbook. it uses few RAM to run and you have great looking and user-friendly ubuntu like interface. and since it's based on ubuntu, there's a higher chance your hardware are all supported.

Slackware 14.0, using xfce, is running OK on my Asus eeepc 1001ha. I have increased the RAM from 1 to 2 GB, which seems to have improved performance a bit.

first i wanna thank you all for responding.
i didnt have much time to respond here in the last week or didnt have alot of time to play with the linux installation stuff.

however i tried some of the propostions:

brief summary:
first i tried to install Mageia 2. Installation worked fine, but Mageia 2 never really started :D. It loaded and loaded but didnt start.
Since i didnt have the time to search for solutions i just tried to install open suse. but also this failed. i couldnt get that to install.
so then today i installed linux mint kde. installation worked fine, its running now. my first impression is that it looks stable. its also only 800mb.

but since i completly unfamiliar with its design and how to configure stuff there, there will be some time needed till i have made up a impressions about mint.

but now the question is, when i having questionsabout mint, whre to ask? :D

with regards

Here:
http://forums.linuxmint.com/
or here at LQ:
http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/linux-mint-84/

Maybe you should try Debian. I did that some time ago, installed Debian on an Acer Aspiire One netbook, and had no problem at all. All devices were detected out-of-the-box and it works flawlessly. The only "problem" is that I can't change screen brighness using Fn+F6 (other software function keys work as expected). Actually, that tiny computer can do way more than one could expect from it - even playing a few 3D games, although that's not its strong point.

Good luck.

I have been using Chrome OS on my Samsung ARM Chromebook, I am quite happy about it. You can try it for Intel here:
http://chromeos.hexxeh.net/

I second the vote for Salix, I love it! , I would love to run chromeos on my netbook, but alas even the lime build of hexxeh doesn't like my hardware.

I have a question! What Linux distribution to install on a laptop that I use for work? By profession I am an economist, and laptop is Toshiba Satellite L500 with 3GB RAM memory and processor dual-core 2.0 GHz? Sorry for my bad English .. thanks

Welcome to the forums! Here's a great comparison of the Top 10:

http://distrowatch.com/dwres.php?resource=major

And here's a fun quiz to help you decide:

http://www.zegeniestudios.net/ldc/

I think you can run whatever distro u like (just not ubuntu).. I recommend you try some tiling windows manager. fedora kde is fine, just install for example i3wm and try it out. it will run much smoother.

Debian based, lightweight, fast =>

http://crunchbang.org/about/

EDIT:

Sorry, I don't think I can delete this post, but was posted in wrong thread and is not on topic.