Last fall, after my one year old Macbook battery died and Apple refused to fix it I decided to spend twice as much as a replacement battery to buy myself a new Asus EEE 1000he netbook instead.
I intended this computer to fulfill note taking at the university, browsing, media playing and to serve as a calculator (Matlab/Maple).
The machine came pre-installed with Windows XP Home and I quickly replaced that with EEEbuntu 3 and have been running that for 4 months. The main problem I have with EEEbuntu is that it's not maintained and the Gnome desktop environment seems to be sucking the life out of my little netbook.
My quest is to find a netbook operating system with the following qualities:
- Fast booting
- Lightweight desktop environment
- Ability to browse (preferably using Chromium)
- Flawless hardware support for my 1000he
- Run Maple and Matlab
I will be going through the candidates and updating each review as I hopefully will be able to find an operating system to my liking.