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I have just installed Ubuntu Netbook Edition [www.canonical.com] 10.04 Lucid Lynx on my Eee PC 4G (701) (Hardware specification [wiki.eeeuser.com]). In short, it works perfectly and flawlessly out-of-box!

This is a 2-year-old laptop with a 'slow' 900MHz Intel Celeron processor and a 'small' 4GB SSD. What else besides a good GNU/Linux distro can resurrect it?

Installation

• Base System. Download the CD Image of Ubuntu Netbook Edition [www.ubuntu.com] and prepare it on a USB stick. Install it.
• Better web experience.
  
  • Adobe Flash and Java Applets. From the Ubuntu Software Center, install 'Adobe Flash plugin' and 'Standard Java or Java compatible Runtime' (default-jre).
  • Compact Themes for Firefox. There are several compact themes for firefox [addons.mozilla.org] which are more suitable for devices with small screen. Install one.
• Complete Chinese support -- More Fonts and Input Methods. Chinese characters can be displayed correctly with the default installation. If you need more fonts and input methods, use System -> Language Support to do it. Support for other languages can be installed similarly.
• Anti-Virus, Anti-Spyware, Filesystem Defragmentation, System Crash Monitor/Analyzer/Recovery, ... Not required and not available!

I have tested several laptop-specific features and they simply work perfectly out-of-box. E.g., the Wi-Fi, the webcam (use 'Cheese' to test it), and the Fn hotkeys (for controlling Wi-Fi, LCD, volume, etc.).

The PC was pre-installed with Xandros when I just bought it, but I was not used to its interface. I thus replaced the OS with Xubuntu. That time, Xubuntu worked fine but required some customizations to make the Wi-Fi and the Fn hotkeys to work properly. So I'm so glad that the latest Ubuntu Netbook Edition (10.04 Lucid Lynx) just works perfectly on it.