Techradar had a day touring Samsung's European forum and had the chance to interview Samsung's Head of Worldwide Sales and Marketing, Kyu Uhm. During the session, Uhm mentioned that future Samsung netbooks will undoubtedly include Windows 7, but having a full version as opposed to the sorry Starter Edition was iffy. It was also mentioned that future Samsung netbooks installed with a Linux distribution was a slight possibility if enough customers truly wanted it.
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Member since:2005-09-17
Good luck installing not so rare software on a (hacked) Fedora 8 based distro. We are already at v10, so 8 is considered apparently middle age by package mantainers. Not even installing… just hit "update all" and enjoy your brick.
I took those "necessary steps", which may I say were a pain in the ass. I managed to get things like barely acceptable IMAP support through Thunderbird or a browser that does not become obsolete 3 days after Acer releases their own package of Firefox, only thanks to very detailed instructions by macles*. Pidgin, was a no-go for things I did not understand and I no longer remember.
I am still left with a system were I cannot easily (or difficultly, as far as my skills allow) install many things I want (and no, none of them are Crysis; just things like a version of Gnome-do that is not from paleolithic ages, Anki or other apps that are definitely quite light)
I only need to find some hours of my spare time I had rather use for other things, to make that joke of an OS vanish, and install an Ubuntu that "almost" works.
Edited 2009-03-26 07:43 UTC
Member since:2005-10-12
Fedora 10 runs quite well on my Aspire One. Haven't tried the latest Rawhide to see if anything broke, but a month-old Fedora Rawhide and an up-to-date Ubuntu 9.04 development also seem to work well. That being said, I wonder, why some of us, myself included, feel the need to be constantly updating our systems with bleeding edge software. Looking over at the Windows world, many people never (or at most rarely) update. I guess we're a different breed.
Member since:2005-07-24
As of last January, Fedora 8 is no longer considered middle age by the package maintainters. It is considered unsupported by them. Cut down at age 14 months, just when it was stabilizing enough that I was able to remove some of the workarounds I had in place. (It was scheduled to get the axe around Christmas, at age 13 months, but they relented in defference to the season.)
Welcome to the love 'em and leave 'em world of Fedora.
Edited 2009-03-26 15:48 UTC
Member since:2008-08-19
Yeah, but it's still obscure, hard to find people who can support it, and needs effort to make it use any of the most common repositories. Not exactly a strong selling point, is it?
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2007-02-17
Linpus is I believe derived from Fedora 8. If you take the necessary steps, documented in online user forums, it is possible to "break out" Linpus netbooks from the semi-closed state they are delivered in, and subsequently to use Fedora 8 repositories to add additional programs.