[Ilugc] netbook recommendations
- From: immiraja@xxxxxxxxx (Immanuel)
- Date: Tue Sep 1 14:13:17 2009
Thyagarajan ?????????? wrote:
curious to know the user experience. Little bit confused after reading the
article
http://tovganesh.blogspot.com/2008/07/switching-form-ubuntu-to-windows-vista.html.
Any ubuntu users working on this laptop , willing to share the
experience...?
I had just read the article from the link you provided.
The only 2 points he ever mentioned for the change is crap. I mean it (sorry
for being un-polite). And I am beginning to suspect if he works for M$. Let me
explain.
About the Wifi cards. I had 7.10 installed, then 8.04 and now 9.04. Ubuntu
discovers Wifi, then it asks for the key. It even detects the
appropriate encryption method. I haven't even gone any deeper to configure. My
system works with WEP and WPA. Just open up the network
manager and reconfigure to ad-hoc. I am not sure why he had to re-compile.
The hardware supports max only 1024x600 (16:9). I am not sure how he mentions
that vista configured it to 1024x768. Either he is wrong or
there is some serious bugs under vista. Vista never gave me a scroll able
windows. That is true for Ubuntu. However in some cases I noticed
that Ubuntu scrolls the screen automatically to work on the input object that
were hidden. But this is not always true.
Regarding the battery time, I agree.
I have to add. I also had XP under the same hardware. XP was slightly better
then vista.
I do development using the netbook. I use GCC4.3, PHP5, python 2.5 and 2.6,
mysql5, apache2 running and still my netbook boot time under is
linux is 1 min.
My experience:
I did have a dual boot on the very same netbook (now only ubuntu). Windows
Vista and Ubuntu. Vista took nearly 15 min to show up the login
screen. Once logged in based on the services you start it is ready for use
anywhere from another 15 min to 30 min. It simply can't boot faster. Ubuntu
prior to 9.04 took nearly about 3 to 4 mins to show up the login screen and
another 2 to 3 min to the desktop.
Ubuntu 9.04 is a breeze with ext4. It takes about 1 min to login screen and
another 30 sec to desktop.
Not just this... your MS Office 2007 loads in much shorter time under wine then
under vista on the same hardware.
OpenOffice loads in about 20 sec under linux (I am saying this because, OOo
used to take a long time to load under linux). Any program in vista take
atlease 2 to 5 mins to load.
Windows media player needs many codec to play DVD or Divx or even mp4. You have
to go hunting for those free codec on the net. Ubuntu just asks your permission
to install the needed codec and downloads and installs. (simple user experience
under Ubuntu was great then vista.)
I need to configure the touch screen under linux to use hand writing
recognition. Just want to ask you all how many times to you really use
these feature... In my case I can live with it until folks fix for my hardware.
I had already passed the necessary info to the developers to
enable calibration for my hardware.
The build in webcam is screwed up one. I use a external only when I need. (I
use webcam very rare.)
Overall I find HCL system a good buy with linux for me.
One thing that motivated me to by this system is that it is a tablet. I can
swirl the screen and browse. All the scroll buttons and mouse
emulator are on the screen panel. These work fine under linux. I can use the
netbook and sit in the backyard and browse / read ebook while my
little boy is playing.
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