What hardware is everyone using???

Hey just curious what hardware or laptop is everybody using...

I use Ubuntu 11.04 on a Asus EEEPC 1201N with a Atheros N Wireless and 3GB ram and 64GB Kingston SSD........
I used a few other distros but still kind of hooked to Ubuntu even tho i would like to use PCLOS Gnome based but for some reason all the newer downloads dont work and if i use live cd it wont find the repositories.....

 

Just got Ubuntu 11.04 working on the family's old Dell Inspiron 1150 with a Linksys WPC54G wireless card. This light OS brought new life to our laptop! I'm now looking for cheap RAM upgrades so that the current 384MB of RAM doesn't bog down an already light OS.

 

VirtualBox and VMware Never having driver issues is well worth losing a tiny bit of performance.

 

Averatec 2155-EH1: AMD Turion MT-30 at 1.6GHz, with 1.25GB DDR RAM, a WD 5400RPM 80GB HDD, and ATI XPress 200M integrated graphics. Running Ubuntu 11.04

 

If you think that's light, you should see what other Linux distros out there, Ubuntu is generally agreed to be one of these most bloated As long as you get to 512MB you're fine for Ubuntu tho, my old computer had 1GB RAM and I could open like every program i had installed on it

Anyway, I'm also using Ubuntu 11.04 on my Lenovo laptop and my desktop build, installing Arch Linux on ma trusty old Toshiba

 

Acer TimelineX 4820TG running Ubuntu 10.10
Acer Aspire One AO722 running Ubuntu 11.04

 

Specifications:

1GB RAM, T7100, Intel X3100 integrated graphics and 80GB SATA hard drive.

Distributions used:

Ubuntu 10.10 and 11.04
Fedora 14 and 15

 

I've been playing a bit with Xubuntu 11.04 (avoiding Gnome 3 like the plague), and it's worked very well with the machine in my sig. Sandy Bridge proc with HM65 chipset.

I had previously tried the newest Fedora with KDE, and was experiencing some visual artifacts in the menu bars.

 

Sony Vaio SR290 CTO 13.3"
Intel P8600
4GB ram
Radeon HD3470
xubuntu 11.04 x64

 

i can see most posted using Ubuntu any issues installing it????or why you choose Ubuntu??

 

1. The Dell Precision from my signature. I never got the Broadcom WLAN working properly but I never really cared. It's always wired.

2. Fujitsu Siemens Amilo Si 1520: Intel 945 GMA chipset, Intel 3945 abg WLAN, 3GB RAM and a Core 2 Duo. Works fine with Debian Squeeze and did that since Etch.

3. Asus EEE 901: Intel GMA 945 chipset, Ralink 2850 WLAN, 2GB RAM and a n N270 Atom. Works totally fine with a custom Ubuntu 8.04 with LXDE. I planne to replace Ubuntu with Squeeze after the release but I just don't need to. So probably I'll upgrade to Wheezy one day when the extended 8.04 support is going to cease.

4. Asus EEE 1018p: I'd have to look the specs up, but it runs fine with Squeeze. I don't use the WLAN since this machine is mainly a HTPC and therefore always wired.

5. An old Desktop: AMD K6/2 CPU (450MHz), 320MB RAM and two HDDs with 18GB together. Squeeze with LXDE works quite well as long as I don't do too much multitasking. Of course watching videos of any kind is not an option on that machine.

(6.) Nokia N900: Since I need it as a phone I can't install Debian directly. So I'm stuck with the Easy Debian chroot which is a nice piece of software but unfortunately needs a Lenny/Squeeze mix to work halfway fine which in turn breaks some things. I plan to build my own Lenny image (a pure Squeeze doesn't work with the N900's keyboard for some reason) but I didn't find the time so far.

 

Nice and user friendly install. I remember I had few issues getting up and running. When I went back to Linux I created USB installs for both Ubuntu 10.10and Fedora 14. I had some graphics issues on scrolling with Fedora 14 (no problem with 15) and the default Fedora fonts were less than pleasing to the eye.

Did a lot of Goggling with Fedora 15, and stuck with it because I wanted to give Gnome 3 a long term test. After a week I was sold on Gnome 3. It does need some improvements, but in general I like it best.

If I could do Ubuntu 11.04 and Gnome 3, that is what I would like to do. Tried four times and failed.

 

Using Gateway MX6920 w/ T2050 dual core and 2 gb ram w/ Ubuntu 11.04 dual boot with Win XP. Frankly, I haven't booted into win xp since I installed.
Also have Gateway LT2104u netbook with the Atom 450 and 2 gb ram and running Kubuntu 11.04 off of Live USB. Works great, but have been intimidated by the install onto hard drive as the options for dual boot are not clearly as defined as they are with the Ubuntu 11.04 install. Still reading up on it.

 

I use the HP Mini in my sig with Ubuntu 11.04.

 

Ubuntu works on the least common denominator of hardware with the least amount of tweaking, and comes with what is usually sufficient software to get started for consumer purposes. Ubuntu itself is based on Debian. There are lots of other distros out there that satisfy different needs, such as lower hardware requirements, server-oriented software, or other non-mainstream uses.

There are LOTS of ubuntu-based distros as well, the most popular (I think) being Mint and Pinguy. These two include non-open source packages that most people will install anyway (e.g., adobe flash).

Some lists:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Ubuntu-based_distributions#Ubuntu-based
http://distrowatch.com/

 

I agree with Mint, but I think you can replace Pinguy with some other distro every half year or so.
There are so many Ubuntu-based distros coming and going that it's hard to name a 2nd "most popular" Ubuntu distro besides Mint. There was Beafanatix and gOS and Debris and Kurumin and Crunchbang and Peppermint and probably half a dozen others. Now it's Pinguy which I didn't even know 2 weeks ago and in a year or so we'll have seen one or two other "most popular" Ubuntu derivatives that we don't know by now which will only differ from Ubuntu by some additional non-free packages and a customized GUI.

 

True. I was just scanning the distrowatch list. My personal favorite distros that have been around the block have to be PartedMagic (solo and with UBCD) and Knoppix. Nothing beats them when stuff hits the fan.

 

I have an old Toshiba Satellite with a Centrino Duo processor 1.6ghz, 512mb ram, and an 80gb hdd. It really brought life to this computer, I'm about to put a small ssd and more RAM in it to use at school instead of my Alienware.

 

laptop in my sig.. ubuntu 11.04 64bit -- everything worked out of the box no installation problems. sound buttons work with proper on-screen display. I'm most impressed with this as I previoulsy had a sony vaio fs660w which I never could get those buttons to work without a tremdous amount of work. Although it was a few versions of ubuntu ago.

 

Using 3 different systems, all running openSUSE 11.4:

1. Dell Inspiron 1520 laptop => Core 2 Duo T7100 1.8GHz + 2 GB RAM + nvidia 8600M GT + 160 GB HDD
2. Gaming/HTPC Rig => core i7 2600 + 12 GB RAM + nvidia 460MGTX + 1 TB HDD (for OS) + 3x1.5TB HDD in RAID5 (for data)
3. Dev rig at work => Xeon E5620 + 12 GB RAM + nvidia Quadro 295 + 1TB HDD

 

Dell Precison M6500 + Scientific Linux/Win 7
Dell Vostro 3350 + Scientific Linux/Win 7
Dell Vostro 1220+ Scientific Linux

 

HP ProBook 4430s (specs in sig), Windows 7 on the HDD, Fedora 15 (yes, with Gnome 3) on a 24GB ExpressCard SSD (/boot is on the last partition of the HDD).

 

@zoid do you have any more information about Scientific Linux beside Distrowatch?? I am kind of getting bored with Ubuntu but i like Gnome. I tried the PClinuxOS but last version is old and respiratorys are not downloadable i liked the look of it and all something similar out there??

 

see my sig >>>

 

CentOS?? LOL.

 

I'm really an amateur with Linux, although I have a lot of experience with Windows 2k through 7, so I use Ubuntu primarily because it has such an active user base online, ranging from all skill levels. If I encounter any problems, it's likely someone else did as well. That, and it fulfills the basic needs I had quite well: driver support was very good for my Averatec out-of-the-box.