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|    Tony Langdon to Mickey Frklic    |
|    Re: Xubuntu Netbook Considerations    |
|    19 Jun 19 20:41:00    |
      TZUTC: 1000       MSGID: 865.fido-linux@3:633/410 216f4dd0       REPLY: 1:218/220 9e2da08a       TID: SBBSecho 3.03-Linux r3.65 Dec 31 2017 GCC 4.6.3       -=> On 06-19-19 00:13, Mickey Frklic wrote to All <=-               MF> Hey All,               MF> First time poster in this echo.               MF> Anyone here successfully setup a netbook to run under Xubuntu or        MF> similar distro?              I use Lubuntu on old netbooks here. Works well.                             MF> I am looking to setup a simple and light portable netbook to use around        MF> the house mainly as a simple client machine when I do not want to have        MF> to sit at my main PC.               MF> Ideally I would like to just be able to run Xubuntu on it and have the        MF> following basic functionality / features if possible:        MF> - Wifi        MF> - Bluetooth        MF> - USB              Yep all of those are working.               MF> As a bonus if it was able to stream Steam Games / and RDP Sessions from        MF> my main Windows PC as well that would be fantastic.              I can't comment on Steam (I don't use it), but there's a number of RDP clients       for Linux, whatever distro you choose. Oh, and I have SyncTerm and Multimail       running on my main roaming netbook. :)               MF> If anyone has any had any experience trying to set this up -- I would        MF> greatly appreciate any feedback / things learned from the experience to        MF> hopefully point me in the right direction.              Should be straightforward, but in general, netbooks are better suited tp simple       terminal duties. I find my Firefox configuration tends to bog the machine       down, same for Thunderbird.                     ... Mind... Mind... Let's see, I had one of those around here someplace.       === MultiMail/Win v0.51       --- SBBSecho 3.03-Linux        * Origin: Freeway BBS Bendigo,Australia freeway.apana.org.au (3:633/410)       SEEN-BY: 1/123 15/2 226/17 227/114 229/275 354 426 452 616 1014 240/5832       SEEN-BY: 249/206 317 400 280/464 292/854 317/3 322/757 342/200 393/68       SEEN-BY: 633/0 267 280 281 384 410 412 509 640/1384 712/848 3828/7       PATH: 633/410 280 229/426           |
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