Mini 9 - 8.04LPIA or Regular 8.10? Whats the verdict ?

[RichTJ99]

Hi,

I have a Mini9 & have been using it for a while. I currently have 8.10 on it but I remember the 8.04 being a bit snappier. I also remember that 8.04 was a bigger PIA due to the LPIA :)

My 8.1 has everything (including sound) working just fine for my needs. I was thinking of trying the 8.04 LPIA & using the force command for installing 386 deb files.

Anyway, I am guessing there has been plenty of testing & I was curious how both versions are working out.

Thanks,
Rich

[anjilslaire]

I'm running 8.10 with the Netbook Remix, happy as can be, including 2gigs of ram :)

[techstop]

I haven't tried lpia, but I installed vanilla intrepid on my mini9. Pretty happy, seems <------------------------------> much snappier than WinXP that was on it previously.

[armandh]

out of the box 8.10 + the one command line of code for the audio,
VLC and the medibuntu.org codex for ALL the media
compiz manager for all the hey watch this [cube] effects.
thunderbird for the e-mail.
2ghz logitech wireless mouse for convenience.

handy portable data and full feature usefulness

[ugm6hr]

Haven't done much tweaking to the default Dell LPIA 8.04, apart from installing OpenOffice 3.0.

There is a deb2lpia script in this forum to convert .debs from i386 if necessary. It appears to work reasonably, but I haven't done any extensive testing..

Fits the bill for my needs just fine.