> shiv@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote ---I have a Lenovo S10 netbook dual booting Windows XP and Fedora Core 11 (with rpmfusion software repository enabled for non-free stuff). I much prefer Fedora over XP. Fedora works well: wireless, suspend, hibernate, > flash videos, videos (via VLC) all work great. I use Sunbird calendar, > and Thunderbird for email. And I get my Unix development tools that I am > used to (emacs, gcc, etc..) without hassle. And when I need to run the > occasional Windows app I have XP .... > > A dual boot is a good way to go. There are a number of good Linux distros... I'm a tennis buff and with Windows, I can watch a variety of live matches on ESPN.com because I use one of ESPN's broadband affiliates (Verizon). This requires a special flash/activeX that, last I checked, wasn't available on Ubuntu. If I had an Ubuntu only netbook, I'd be out of luck at least until the plugin comes available.. Then again, it wouldn't surprise me if someday soon MS starts messing with not providing its XP world with support to maintain Vista capable plugins and flashes -- hopefully Ubuntu (or some other distro) will have caught up by then... I sort of given up hope that Maemo will every catch up with new flashes for the n810 world, but one never knows. As a aside, I'm a UCSB grad -- molecular bio. UCSB is the best University experience available -- hard to beat being surrounded by beach on two sides. Study hard, party harder... :) Always, Fred C _______________________________________________ maemo-users mailing list maemo-users@xxxxxxxxx https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-users
