[ale] linux netbook questions

[Joshua Roberts]

have you used this machine? The Asus X53U-XR2.  It looks good, but the asus
website has no information on it, and the asus call center techs cannot find
it either.  strange.
I can see some windows drivers for it in the support section of the asus
website.  Funny.
I may add this to my list of candidates.  I wonder how linux will run on it.
Hopefully there are not any driver issues.

Thanks.

On Fri, May 20, 2011 at 11:00 AM, Jim Kinney <jim.kinney at gmail.com> wrote:

> http://www.microcenter.com/single_product_results.phtml?product_id=0360533
>
>
> On Fri, May 20, 2011 at 10:47 AM, Joshua Roberts <jrtroberts at gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> I do not think I will be using eclipse. Maybe bluefish at most, but
>> probably just nano/vim/gedit/... and compile with g++ or javac or whatever
>> command line compiler I need for the language I am using.
>> I wouldn't mind some extra horsepower, but the cost of a slightly better
>> processor and an extra gig of ram is possibly too high.
>>
>>
>> On Fri, May 20, 2011 at 10:34 AM, Pete Hardie <pete.hardie at gmail.com>wrote:
>>
>>> One question is what will you use to write programs?  Eclipse is
>>> somewhat heavyweight, so you'd need more horsepower
>>> than if you use vi/vim/emacs
>>>
>>>
>>> On Fri, May 20, 2011 at 10:30, Joshua Roberts <jrtroberts at gmail.com>
>>> wrote:
>>> > I am looking into getting a netbook soon. I think it will greatly aid
>>> my
>>> > studies at SPSU, but I do not know how much power I need.  I would like
>>> to
>>> > stay in the lower end of the price range, $250-$400. I mostly need to
>>> read
>>> > books, write programs for classes, net surfing.  I have been looking
>>> > at http://www.linux-netbook.com/, but I am still unsure of which
>>> product to
>>> > buy.
>>> > Can anyone offer any advice?
>>> > Is there a preferred distro of linux to use? I was thinking of using
>>> one of
>>> > the mint 10 LXDE, either debian based or ubuntu based.
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