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Posted 08 February 2010 - 05:21 PM


I have a client you wants me to reload their eee pc 900a. I am looking for a simple distro that has sound, ethernet and wifi already configured. Are their any distros that might work well for this?


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easypeasy might be what im looking for
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Posted 08 February 2010 - 05:39 PM

View Postshanenin, on 08 February 2010 - 02:21 PM, said:

I have a client you wants me to reload their eee pc 900a. I am looking for a simple distro that has sound, ethernet and wifi already configured. Are their any distros that might work well for this?


edit added:

easypeasy might be what im looking for


Saw this link. Ubuntu 9.10 looks like it might be worth investigating.

Maybe ubuntu 9.10?

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Posted 08 February 2010 - 05:51 PM

that may be a good choice. Thanks
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Posted 08 February 2010 - 06:48 PM

View Postshanenin, on 08 February 2010 - 02:51 PM, said:

that may be a good choice. Thanks


You're welcome:) Please let us know what you settle on, I'm curious about this:)

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Posted 08 February 2010 - 07:09 PM

I tried easypeasy first(already downloaded). it seems to work well, so I will just keep this.
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Posted 08 February 2010 - 07:17 PM

View Postshanenin, on 08 February 2010 - 04:09 PM, said:

I tried easypeasy first(already downloaded). it seems to work well, so I will just keep this.


Hey thanks:) I didn't know that "easypeasy" was a distro I thought you meant that you wanted an easy distro.
I will check that out for my netbook:)

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Posted 08 February 2010 - 11:04 PM

I did want an easy distro. It was a work computer, I did not want to take the time to configure it.

Knowing your background, you may not like it as much as regular ubuntu(easypeasy is based off ubuntu 9.04). The UI is kind of dumbed down.
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Posted 09 February 2010 - 03:20 AM

is it like the net book edition?
want to try one more Live Linux cd..
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Posted 09 February 2010 - 10:10 AM

exactly. it is based of ubuntu 9.04. it has all the drivers preconfigured for netbooks(at least the popular ones) and a dumbed down UI

java and flash were even preinstalled
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