Saturday, November 22, 2008

Other Distributions

Many people switch from Linpus to a different Linux operating system, such as Mandrive 2009 or Ubuntu.

The only problem with these is that they aren't quite as fast to boot, sleep, resume or shutdown as Linpus. This severely undermines the AAOs core utility as a mobile "Netbook" device. 

For instance, Mandriva takes 90 seconds to boot on a AAO, and 30 seconds to resume from sleep.
Linpus takes about 20 seconds to boot, and 10 seconds to resume from sleep.

As a result, if you need mobility and speed, I recommend keeping Linpus as your AAOs main operating system, despite its problems, weaknesses and general crappiness.

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