Author: Tony Whitmore Date: To: Hampshire LUG Discussion List Subject: Re: [Hampshire] Ebuyer Netbook Bargain
Andy Random wrote: > On Fri, 14 Nov 2008, Jon Fautley wrote:
>
>>> Aside from that it has got a decent 1280 x 768 WXGA
>>> screen resolution, 120 GB hard drive, 1GB memory. Not sure which
>>> flavour of Linux...
>> According to that link.. SLED 10.
>>
>> ... and there was me just about to order one ;)
>
> SLED? Never heard of it... Is it to be avoided for some reason?
SUSE Linux Enterprise Edition. Draw your own conclusions.
> Is there some reason you can't just install the distro of your choice on
> the machine after purchase?
In theory not, but all the hardware might not work out of the box on
other distros, with some of these ultra-portables having hardware which
is currently only supported with binary blobs on certain kernels.
