Which Linux will best suit my EeePC 1015PX?

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Which Linux will best suit my EeePC 1015PX?

Hello friendz,

I have an ASUS EeePC 1015PX notebook (Intel Atom N570 1.66 GHz, 1GB RAM). I am thinking of switching over to Linux (for faster computing, browsing as well as learning purpose). I am totally new to Linux. Please suggest which one will best suit my notebook (with no hardware/driver compatibility issue), which is pretty fast, and has good support of video & audio playback formats. I am confused over so many Linux Distros (Lubuntu, CrunchBang etc). Also i need support for video call (like skype), and torrent client.

Thanks in advance.

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Friends, I am unable to boot my netbook from usb. I have used Unetbootin and also Universal-USB-Installer-1.9.3.1. The usb creation gets completed. I have set 1st boot device as usb. But there is no boot options. The system is booting with Windows XP. I have even tried by disabling Hard Disk from boot device, and kept only usb as boot device. That resulted in boot failure. Please help.

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I found that for new users EasyPeasy is easy to use. It is Ubuntu for netbooks.

http://distrowatch.com/table.php?distribution=easy...

Just a video of the desktop:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rmNQPfNWsjo

Just remember with many distros connect to the internet with a wired connection when you install. This way it can download any needed software. This is not with all, but it just makes it easier.

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Albert W

Hi There,

After trying many flavors of Linux these are fast, small and have the drivers for wireless and video/audio codecs. Also these can use the Ubuntu repositories. Puppy can use Slacko apps too.

1. Puppy Slacko 5.3.3 with LXDE desktop

2.PCLinuxOS LXDE 2012.01

3. WattOS-R6X86

I settled on these after much confusion and trouble installing audio/video codecs and hunting for suitable wireless adapter drivers. I know everyone like Ubuntu but it has no drivers or codecs in the installation. I did not want to have to learn command line to get it to work.

You might have to "fiddle" with wifi connection for Puppy but the drivers are there.

These have worked for me on a HP and Dell laptop (also a HP desktop)

All three can be downloaded and the ISO file can be burned to a CD ( use BurnCDCC or IMGburn)

You also can install to a USB flash drive ( 4 gigabyte is a good size ) using UNETbootin.

One thing to remember before installing to a USB flash drive is to format the flash drive first.

Otherwise the drive will not boot. You can do a quick format to Fat 32 and the drive usually will be bootable.

I have PCLinuxOS and Puppy Slacko 5.3.3 installed on bootable flash drives.

The USB flash drive will boot up and run as a "live CD" to check the compatibility with your hardware....mainly check the wifi connection. If everything works OK then Linux can be installed from the desktop (from the live USB).

Hope this helps,

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