[NTLUG:Discuss] Linux Install on Dell Mini 10 (1018)

[Robert Pearson]

On Tue, Nov 30, 2010 at 7:17 PM, agoats at compuserve.com
<agoats at compuserve.com> wrote:
>>
>> Out of curiousity, why does your better half want to install
>> the older v8.04?
>
> The newer KDE 4 interface looks like Vista/Windows 7 too much, she's more
> comfortable with the windows 95/98/XP of the KDE 3 series. I'm not very fond
> of the KDE4 either, flash and splash at the cost of too many other things
> that are actually more important.   It took me a  couple of hours to find
> how to get rid of the menu crap and revert it to the older style I prefer.
> Not everyone likes "change" and too many ignore this.
>
> Alvin
>

I used PCLinuxOS 2010 (KDE 4.5.3) as a "go-by" for KDE4 on Kubuntu
10.04 (KDE 4.4.4).
PCLinuxOS 2010 with KDE 4.4.2 was not as stable as it is with KDE 4.5.3.
I am reading good things about Kubuntu 10.10 which uses KDE 4.5.3.
My Kubuntu 10.04 now looks very much like PCLinuxOS 2009 which used
KDE 3.5. Very much like Kubuntu 8.04.
The main change is to use Oxygen instead of Plasma. Unless you know
and understand Plasma. It is a mystery to me.
All the advice about Windows 7 + Linux is the good stuff.
HTH.


>
> Fred Hensley wrote:
>>
>> I recently went through the same exercise with an older Dell Mini 10
>> (model 1010) and a newer Dell Inspiron 11z.  In the case of the older
>> unit (1010), the Intel GMA500 video chipset driver was a disaster to
>> support because the Poulsbo hardware manufacturer had little interest in
>> maintaining support for Linux, but by contrast the 10.10 installation to
>> the newer 11z Intel 945 chipset was a breeze.
>>
>> Ubuntu maintains a hardware compatibility list as follows, but so far no
>> entries yet regarding your newer Mini 10.
>>
>> https://wiki.ubuntu.com/HardwareSupport/Machines/Netbooks
>>
>> We also had to keep our Windows 7 partition alive and well on our
>> netbooks to support some applications, but the newest 10.10 Ubuntu
>> installation flawlessly resized the Windows partition for us. We even
>> had a little graphical "slider" during the install process to
>> dynamically resize the old windows partition (making it t-i-n-y)
>> compared to the new Linux partitions.  When we next rebooted Windows 7,
>> it complained about the resized hard disk and performed some HD tests,
>> but nothing more.
>> I would assume installing the newest 10.10 Kubuntu install should also
>> work well with existing Windows partitions, but as always your mileage
>> may vary.  Out of curiousity, why does your better half want to install
>> the older v8.04?
>>
>> Finally, although your stated interests lie elsewhere with Kubuntu, we
>> also installed the newest netbook version of Ubuntu 10.10 with the
>> flashy "Unity" interface for small form factor displays.  So far, so
>> good, despite some small technical issues thus far.  FYI, we like it
>> quite a bit when running standard graphical desktop apps.
>>
>> Have fun, good luck with Kubuntu on your Mini 10, and Merry Christmas to
>> everyone at NTLUG!
>>
>> -Fred-
>> Fred Hensley
>> fred at hensleyhome.org
>>
>>
>> On Mon, 2010-11-29 at 22:32 -0600, agoats at compuserve.com wrote:
>>
>>
>>>
>>> Ya'll,
>>>
>>> Spousal unit wants Kubuntu 8.04 installed on it and she wants to keep
>>> Winbloze 7 as well. Wiping and install, no real issue, but windows 7....
>>>
>>> Anybody have any war stories on installing and resizing partitions on
>>> windows 7?
>>>
>>> Alvin
>>>
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