Comparison of netbook-oriented Linux distributions

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Netbooks are small laptops, with screen sizes between approximately 7 and 12 inches and low power consumption. They use either an SSD (solid state disk) or a HDD (hard disk drive) for storage, have up to 2 gigabytes of RAM (but often less), lack an optical disk drive, and usually have USB, Ethernet, WiFi and often Bluetooth connectivity. The name emphasizes their use as portable Internet appliances.

## Contents

* 1 Netbook distributions
* 2 Comparison
* 2.1 Features
* 2.1.1 Specific Features
* 2.2 Google Trends
* 3 References
* 4 See also

## Netbook distributions

There are special Linux distributions, called netbook distributions, for these machines. All such distributions purport to be optimized for use with small, low-resolution displays. They tend to include a broad mix of VOIP and web-focused tools, including proprietary applications rarely seen installed by default by mainstream desktop distributions[citation needed]. For instance, Nokia Maemo and Asus' customized Xandros both ship with Skype and Adobe Flash installed, and Ubuntu's Netbook Edition offers the option to do the same for OEMs.[1]

## Comparison

### Features

Distribution  | Working State  | Aim  | Creator  | Producer  | Base Distribution  | Installed Size (MB)  | Initial Release Date  | Interface  | Linux Kernel  | Default File System  | Architecture Support  | Approximate Number of Pre-compiled Packages  | Default Package Management Tools  | Default Installer

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Aurora | 2009

Last Release, development stopped

| Asus Eee PC optimized  | Eeebuntu community  |  | Ubuntu |  | 2009-05-15  | Gnome or Gnome \+ Netbook Remix  | Array kernel (modified kernel)[2] |  |  |  | APT  |
CrunchBang Linux 11-20130119 | 2015-02-06

Development Stopped

| Limited hardware machines  | Philip Newborough  |  | Debian |  | 2013-01-19  | Openbox | 3.2.35  |  | x86 + x86_64  |  | APT  |
Debian Eee PC |  | Asus Eee PC  |  |  | Debian  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |
Debian Wheezy  |  |  |  |  | Written from scratch  |  |  |  |  |  | i386, AMD64, PowerPC, SPARC, ARM, MIPS, S390, armhf, s390x. Loongson[3] |  |  |
EasyPeasy 1.6 | 2012

Last Release, development stopped

| All netbooks  | EasyPeasy Community  | Jon Ramvi  | Ubuntu |  | 2010-04-24  | Gnome \+ Netbook Remix  | 2.6.32  | ext4  | x86  |  | APT  | Ubiquity
Eeedora[4] |  | Asus Eee PC 701  | Martin Andrews  |  | Fedora |  |  | Xfce |  |  |  |  | RPM |
Firefly Linux 1.0 Beta 1  | 2009

Last Release, development stopped

|  | Firefly Linux community  |  | Arch Linux |  |  | LXDE | 2.6.29.4  |  | x86  |  | Pacman  |
Fuduntu | 2013-04-14

Last Release, development stopped

| All netbooks[5] | Andrew Wyatt "Fewt"  | Fuduntu.org[5] | None (Originally based on Fedora 14)  |  | 2012-10-01  | Gnome | 3.6.9  | ext4  | x86[6] \+ x86_64[7] |  | RPM \+ YUM  |
gNewSense |  | Free software | Brian Brazil and Paul O'Malley  | Sam Geeraerts with sponsorship from the FSF | Debian  |  |  |  | Linux-libre 2.6.32  |  | Loongson, x86, x86-64 |  | APT  | Ubiquity
Joli OS 1.2
(formerly named Jolicloud)  | 2013-11-22 Last Release, development stopped  | All netbooks[8] | Joli OS | Joli OS | Ubuntu |  | 2011-03-09  | HTML5 \+ Gnome | 2.6.35.10  | ext4  | x86  |  | APT  |
Kuki Linux 2.0 | 2009

Last Release, development stopped

| Aspire One optimized  | Kuki Linux community  |  | Ubuntu |  |  | Xfce |  |  |  |  |  |
Linux4One 1.5 |  | Aspire One optimized  | Linux4One community  |  | Ubuntu |  |  | Gnome or LXDE |  |  |  |  |  |
Leeenux Linux v10  | 2016 Last Release  | All netbooks  | Aleksandar Ciric  |  | Ubuntu 16.04 LTS  |  |  | LXDE, XFCE  |  | ext4  | x86, AMD64  |  | APT, Synaptic, Software center  | Ubiquity
Leeenux 2020  | Supported until April 2023  | All netbooks  | Aleksandar Ciric  |  | Ubuntu 18.04 LTS  |  |  | LXDE, XFCE  |  |  | x86, AMD64  |  | APT, Synaptic, Software center  |
Lubuntu

15.10

| 2015-10-22

Active Development

| Limited hardware machines  | Lubuntu Community and LXDE Foundation  |  | Ubuntu |  | 2011-10-13  | LXDE |  |  |  |  | Synaptic  |
Manjaro Netbook Edition[9] | 2015-07-25

Active Development

| All netbooks  | Rob McCathie  | Manjaro Linux | Arch Linux |  |  | Xfce | Intel Atom-optimized Manjaro kernel  | ext4  | x86, x86_64  |  | Pamac (graphical frontend for pacman)  |
Midinux |  | All netbooks  | Red Flag Linux |  |  |  | 2007  |  |  | ext3  | x86  |  |  |
MeeGo 1.2 | 2012

Last Release, development stopped

| Intel Atom processor netbooks, Nokia ARM smartphones  | Intel, Nokia, Maemo community  | Intel, Nokia, Linux Foundation | None (it is a distribution developed out of Maemo and Moblin)  |  | 2010-10-28  | "Netbook User Experience" (based on Clutter)  | 2.6.35  | btrfs | x86 with SSSE3 support  |  | RPM |
Moblin 2.1 | 2009-04

Last Release, development stopped

| All Intel Atom processor netbooks and MID  | Intel | Intel/Linux Foundation | None (borrows components for various distributions[10])  |  | 2009-11-04  | Clutter  |  |  |  |  | RPM (may change[10])  |
OpenGeeeU 8.10 | 2012-08

Last Release, development stopped

|  | Luca De Marini  |  | Easy Peasy[11] |  | 2009-03-23  | Enlightenment plus Gnome | 2.6.27  | ext3  | x86  | 26000  | APT  | Ubiquity
Puppeee Linux 4.3X | Linpus is 64-bit only  | Asus Eee PCs with Intel Chipsets  | Jemimah Ruhala  |  | Puppy Linux 4.3.1 | 200MB  |  | Choice of IceWM / OpenBox / Flwm with ROX-Filer / PcManFM / LxLauncher  | 2.6.33  | AUFS + SquashFS + EXT2  | Atom / CeleronM  |  | Pet  | PetGet
Trisquel Mini | 2014-11

Last Release, development stopped

| Limited hardware machines  |  |  | Trisquel |  | 2010-09  |  |  |  |  |  |  |
Ubuntu Netbook Edition 10.10 | 2010-10

Last Release, development stopped

| Intel Atom processor netbooks[12] | Canonical Ltd.  | Canonical Ltd.  | Ubuntu |  | 2010-10-10  | Unity  | 2.6.32  |  | x86  | 32000  | APT  |
Distribution  | Working State  | Aim  | Creator  | Producer  | Base Distribution  | Installed Size (MB)  | Initial Release Date  | Interface  | Linux Kernel  | Default File System  | Architecture Support  | Approximate Number of Pre-compiled Packages  | Default Package Management Tools  | Default Installer

#### Specific Features

Distribution  | Target Boot Time  | Whole OS Loads to RAM

(Default)

| LIVE

Medium

| Target Users  | SSD Write Optimization

(SSD degradation, I/O optimization, etc.)

| Specific Supported Hardware

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Aurora 3.0 |  |  |  |  |  |
EasyPeasy 1.6 |  |  | LIVE Medium  | Beginner, highly mobile netbook users.  |  |
Eeedora[4] |  |  |  |  |  |
Firefly Linux 1.0 Beta 1  |  |  |  |  |  |
Joli OS 1.2 |  |  |  |  |  |
Kuki Linux 2.0 |  |  |  |  |  |
Linux4One 1.5 | 40 seconds[13] |  |  |  |  |
Manjaro Netbook Edition |  |  |  |  |  |
Moblin 2.0 | 5 seconds[14][15] |  |  |  |  |
OpenGeeeU 8.10 |  |  |  |  |  |
Puppeee Linux 4.3X | 30s  | Loads to RAM  |  |  | Layered filesystem - caches writes in RAM  | Lightweight kernel compiled for EeePCs only
Ubuntu Netbook Edition 10.10 |  |  |  |  |  |

### Google Trends

While no public numbers measuring the install-base of these operating systems are available, Google Trends data on a handful of them indicate their relative popularity:

## References

1. ↑ Ubuntu 10.4 UNE
2. ↑ "Array kernel site". http://www.eeebuntu.org/index.php?page=array.
3. ↑ "DebianYeeloong - Debian Wiki". https://wiki.debian.org/DebianYeeloong.
4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 Eeedora project at Google Code
5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 "Fuduntu Website". http://www.fuduntu.org.
6. ↑ "Fuduntu i386". http://packages.fuduntu.org/cgi-bin/getiso?name=Fuduntu-2012.4-i686-LiveDVD.iso.
7. ↑ "Fuduntu x86_64". http://packages.fuduntu.org/cgi-bin/getiso?name=Fuduntu-2012.4-x86_64-LiveDVD.iso.
8. ↑ "Jolicloud Compatible Devices". http://www.jolicloud.com/product/compatibility.
9. ↑ Manjaro Netbook Edition at SourceForge
10. ↑ 10.0 10.1 Moblin FAQ
11. ↑ [1]
12. ↑ "Canonical | About the company". http://www.canonical.com/projects/ubuntu/unr.
13. ↑ "Features of Light version of Linux4One". http://www.linux4one.it/.
14. ↑ Fast boot in Moblin page
15. ↑ Youtube video showing Moblin 2.0 prerelease booting in 5 seconds.

## See also

* Android
* List of Linux distributions that run from RAM
* List of tools to create Live USB systems

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