Toshiba NB305

[melodie]

I remember when great care was taken so the the kernel and drivers would fit on a single floppy... 1.4 MB. Today's newly added kernel is 2.0 MB, and the initrd image another 6.5 MB.

The Debian community still maintains a 5 floppies install mode. I tried once, for fun... it's not like when people had only this method available, it's...  kind of exotic. ^^

[freecicero]

Joble, I am just about to start trying to dualboot my NB305 with the latest PCLINUX.

Do you have a recommendation on KDE vs LXDE?

And is there some special desktop configuration you use to suit the small screen?

thanks

[Joble]

You sorry sap.  Xfce!  I'm all about Xfce!  If you knew me you would know that!

(Just kidding)  I use kde and I have task-xfce, task-enlightenment, and task-lxde installed on it too.  Install kde. works like a champ.  I did up the ram to 2G but so far haven't used much over 512 that I know of.  You're good, just do it.  It Rocks on this little toshiba netbook.

[Joble]

I wouldn't recommend lxde actually.  No reason for that, except that, you know, Neal maintains that.  HUGS Neal!  ROFL!

[Joble]

Ok, all kidding aside.  KDE.  One thing I have noticed is that I have to play with the touchpad as it loads.  If I don't I don't get page scrolling on the right hand side.  Also not sure my mike works for skype, though I have updated the kernel, I have not tested that.  Last time I played with the Netbook workspace, it crashed contantly, have not played with it recently though.

I think that's about it.  Install KDE.  That is my recommendation for this netbook.  It works, its what I use. 

I know I messed with you a bit.  Just in fun.  I hope Neal reads it.   

[T6]

i found very funny that you got that netbook but you discovered that it didn't had a cdrom drive 

my wireless on this nb255 is not working well, it finds too many networks with the same name, no idea what that means, since i don't have passwords for those networks i can't test them 

[melodie]

Hi,

I would recommand you try all versions of the collection. This way, you will know what you really like most ! The matter of feeling there is very personal... and the way it reacts in on given machine has also to do with the way one uses it : if you use on app at a time, or 3 or 4 greedy ones at same time... (ie: Gimp + OpenOffice Impress because you create a presentation, plus a greedy music collection manager to listen to your favorite songs while working, + Firefox with several tabs because you need infos on OOo and Gimp tricks on the tutorials and forums... )