Steve Wesemeyer wrote:
> I initially installed the Gnome edition of OpenSuse and pretty much everything
> bar some of the function keys worked. With the latest kernel most of the
> function keys work in KDE (especially the brightness keys) so I should think
> that they work in Gnome, too. My Fedora install uses Gnome and again most
> function keys work as well (http://home.ircnet.de/cru/nc10/fedora10.html has
> some more info on this albeit slightly out of date).
>
> I can suspend2ram and suspend2disk and apart from the occasional need to
> reconnect to my AP after I resume from either state, the wifi works ok. The
> ath5k driver is still a bit iffy but works most of the time.
>
> The battery monitor seems accurate and the fan doesn't come on too often
> either. So no real complaints in that respect.
>
> Cheers,
> Steve
Sounds good! I don't suppose you've toyed with upgrading the ram in that
machine too, I understand the max is 2GB? The other thing I am
interested about and this is again more aligned to a different topic and
one that perhaps has been covered and availably in the archives - but
how usable is the SNC10 and similar netbooks. My thoughts were that I'd
use it as a primary work machine (e-mail, oo, firefox etc..I'm not too
interested in watching HD or any video content on it!. Its just whether
or not its really too small to use to work from? I know there are tons
of reviews for this machine and other netbooks but I cant really get a
sense of how usable a netbook is for the long haul. thanks, J
