Two new Linux distros were released recently that I thought would be worthy for the Asus 4G Surf Linux Challenge. For those of you who are new I have a Asus EEEpc 701 4g Surf netbook. It is basically the first and in my opinion the best generation of netbooks although the 4GB hard drive leaves a lot to be desired but without that small disk space there would be no challenge.
Our first contestant is Linux Mint 12 LXDE version. I always have been a huge supporter of Linux Mint and I even used Mint 11 LXDE on the Asus for a good while. However the good news ends there as Mint 12 LXDE comes in at over 4GB. This is not to say anything bad about Mint. They make some of the best distros out there.
Also released recently was the LXDE version of my most recent favorite distro, Zorin OS.They recently released Zorin OS 6 Lite. To be honest I don’t see a whole lot of difference from 5 but this is a winning distro.
Installed with no problem. Still had almost a GB of space left over after the install. Boot time is crazy fast. Comes with Chromium rather than Chrome as the default browser which I really like.
So as of now Zorin OS 6 Lite is the current Asus 4G Surf Linux Challenge Champion.
On a side note about Zorin, they are holding back the release of Zorin OS 6 Core until they can find a desktop to their liking. With the current state of desktops in Linux I say take as much time as you want.