Mini 9 will be here soon.

[Colin Law]

2009/10/12 Marcelo Magno T. Sales <mmtsales at gmail.com>:
> Em Segunda-feira 12 Outubro 2009, Mark Griffin escreveu:
>> I ordered a Dell mini 9. It should be arriving tomorrow, or soon
>> after. It has the Dell version of 8.04 on it. I'm liking what I have
>> seen on the web about the regular Netbook Remix. I have a usb thumb
>> drive all loaded up with 9.04 Remix. I'm wondering though, if I will
>> be giving up anything by ditching the included version? It's supposed
>> to be optimized for the Atom processor, and all that. Will I be
>> trading stuff like smoother flash playback, for an OS I like better?
>>
>> The 9 will be my primary computer.(Don't laugh) I'm poor, and want
>> ultra portability.
>>
>> I'm not exactly new to Linux. I used to run Yellow Dog Linux on an
>> old iMac(The kind with a built-in CRT). I'm not exactly an expert
>> either.
>
> The only thing that probably has better support in the Dell version that
> comes with your netbook is the Intel GMA500 video chipset (Poulsbo /
> psb). All the rest work very well with Jaunty and Karmic.
> The video works great for 2D, but compositing and 3D desktop effects are
> not very good currently. Actually, it is very slow and not all effects
> can be used. I have a Sony Vaio P688 which has the same video chipset.
> I've read that your Dell version of Ubuntu 8.04 has 100% working psb
> drivers.
> Maybe you should backup your hard drive with dd to some external usb
> storage and then install Karmic Netbook Remix to test it. If you don't
> like the results, restore the previous system.

Or do a dual boot if you have 10Gb free disk so that you don't need to
remove the existing system.

Colin