Netbook internals/ Distro openness
Having been through an HP2133 (SUSE fail, see earlier thread) and fetched up with an Elonex T1 (locked into supplied software, but bargain option) I am curious and trying to learn.
At the low budget end it seems the chipset and software will not leave you open at all to choosing your own distro and "owning" the machine.
I have zero knowledge of the elite of netbooks - though I know there are some extremely expensive bits of kit out there I really do not know what the extra money buys.
At the medium budget end it seemed there were limitations and a friend told me they believed the chip was more or less a "RISC" variation on the 386 architecture which then involved am additional low level layer of software to implement the full instruction set.
I should like (when money allows) a netbook that I can install distro of my choice to (whether or not it involves an external drive)... and I am wondering if others could share their experiences or knowledge, especially in light of the above and the fact I have not had any contact with the "Atom" CPU. Are the C7 and the Atom the only players? I realise the Elonex has it's own, but I am discounting that as last years technology.
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