Lightweight netbook distros

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On Thu, Jan 5, 2012 at 4:37 AM, Art Edwards
<edwardsa at icantbelieveimdoingthis.com> wrote:
> On 01/04/2012 06:50 PM, Liam Proven wrote:
>> Are any of the netbook remixes still being updated?
>>
>> I've put the 12.04 alpha on my Acer Aspire One (512MB, 8GB SSD).
>>
>> After updating, it's 100% functional - but dog-slow. Unity works fine
>> and fits the small (1024*600) screen nicely. But it takes 1-2min to
>> boot, LibreOffice Writer takes 1-2 to start, the Soiftware Centre
>> takes 2-3min and so on.
>>
>> All the remixes I knew of 2-3y ago seem to be dead and haven't updated
>> since 10.04 if you're lucky: EasyPeasy (ex Ubuntu-EEE), Aurora (ex
>> Eeebuntu), gOS (dead), Leeenux, etc.
>>
>> Is there anything current, as full Ubuntu is now too much for such an
>> old, low-spec machine.
>>
>> It's a shame as Unity is the ideal desktop for it. I don't really want
>> a "full" desktop environment such as GNOME or KDE, just a lightweight
>> app-launcher.
>>
> I just put natty on an acer 1 for my son. It runs really well.  Under
> maverick, not so well. maverick didn't recognize wifi, but natty did. Im
> not ruve nning unity so I don't know about that but gnome 2 works beautifully.
>
> Art Edwards
>
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Give Lubuntu a try.  I installed it on Virtualbox under 11.10 host and
it works fine and is much more basic. but does all the necessaries.