Simon Royal wrote:
Hi I have been using Ubuntu solidly for a few weeks now and loving it. A Mac fan prior to that for 10 years, I got given an old Samsung A10 laptop, installed Ubuntu and the rest is history. The Samsung is a little beaten up but works fine. Now I have gotten comfortable with Ubuntu and sold my Apple PowerBook I am on the look out for something a bit better and would really like a small netbook. I don't do anything to intense. I only write, email, surf (including games in FaceBook), the odd image editing in GIMP and a bit of Skype. First of all, does anyone have any recommendations as to which netbook to look at? Does anyone have one for sale? I don't really want anything with a 7" screen. I need one to run Ubuntu 9.10. My current Samsung is a 1.1Ghz Duron, so something with a little more oomph would be nice, although Ubuntu runs very smoothly on it with 1GB RAM.
The Asus Eee is Linux-friendly and some came/come with Xandros pre-loaded, but with a Tellytubby GUI - (you can change this to standard KDE - search for 'getkde' and download relevant file. I've no doubt you could install Gnome too.).
However, to answer your question - the Eee runs Ubantu nicely, and someone will come along any minute to tell you which is the best way.