Strays...

It's been one of those days...

I picked up another stray today...  Yep, a little Sony Vaio, one of the "just above netbook" models.  I got it for a decent price, and it arrived today.  A nice little system.

It has its flaws.  Won't give me a boot from USB option.  And the button on the optical drive is freaking tiny.  But it's not bad.  The screen, for something this small (c.10" range) is quite clear.  Even my bleary eyes appreciate it.

It came with WinXP onboard, and the seller actually took care of updates.  He installed FireFox, OpenOffice, and Avira, all of which work well.  (I have zero experience with Avira, but I've read some good things...)  Of course, XP isn't going to last too long...

The two contenders I had in mind were Lubuntu and/or Xubuntu.  I was leaning towards the latter, as I've not used it on any of my other systems, and wanted to give it a whirl.  (I briefly had Lubuntu on my X60s, and liked it.)  So, to do some testing, I pulled out a couple .iso burns I'd made a while back.

Xubuntu booted up well, but it seemed like it took forever, even giving it the delay for a live boot.  Then, to my surprise, even though it was telling me it recognized the wireless card, and saw networks available, it wouldn't give me the wireless icon.  All I could get was the "edit wireless profile".

Rubbish.

I rebooted, and put in Lubuntu.  In this case, everything worked fine.  No problems at all.   However, the latest version I have is 12.10, not having bothered to download 13.04.  And I further remember having to manually install Flash on Lubuntu.  Not that that's a problem (and maybe it's been corrected since I had to do it), but my inherently lazy nature rebels...

So...

Right now, I'm doing a battery test, and decided to not fool with running XP. Instead, I live booted into MacPup 5.2.9.  Again, everything works perfectly, including Flash.

So...  Hmmm...

I'm seriously considering installing my first working Puppy-to-hard-drive install.  It's very, very tempting...

But I'm going to think about it.  May try a live boot of a couple other distros, just to see how they work/look.  (There is an aesthetic quality I'm looking for, too..)

We shall see...