[ILUG] eee701 best distro

[Rafiq Maniar]

Hey,
I'll be honest, this is the first I've heard of "limited writes" to SSD. We
got
a ton of IBM servers with SSD drives, the sales reps sure didn't mention
that!

But, for an eeePC, is it that much of an issue that you'd be basing
your distro on it, and dropping journalling?!

A quick Google search would suggest not:
http://wiki.eeeuser.com/ssd_write_limit
http://www.storagesearch.com/ssdmyths-endurance.html

>From those articles it would appear that these issues would
only become apparent after many years of continuous use. I
have a eee701 thats about 2 years old and I'm going to replace
it as soon as I can get my hands on a 1000HE. I don't imagine
I'll be keeping my new one for more than two years either.

Rafiq

On Sun, Apr 5, 2009 at 4:41 PM, Conor Wynne <mariconor at gmail.com> wrote:

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> Rob Gallagher wrote:
> > 2009/4/5 Conor Wynne <mariconor at gmail.com>:
> >> So any suggestions to rescue it, or better alternatively, another distro
> >> which will work flawlessly with the WiFi.... coz xubuntu didn't conect,
> >> although I've since googled and you need to blacklist something or
> other.
> >>
> >
> > Try Easy Peasy (formerly eeeubuntu)
> >
> > http://www.geteasypeasy.com/
> >
> > rg
> >
>
> I've decided to go with fedora10 as the wifi works on th elive cd.
>
> To save the hdd should I drop journaling and mount noatime or what?
> Along with disabling cron and anything else that writes to the disk.
>
> Opinions welcome
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