Fedora install support for netbooks -- small screen size

Robert Moskowitz rgm at htt-consult.com
Fri Jan 8 13:50:17 UTC 2010


On 01/07/2010 09:30 AM, Adam Williamson wrote:
> On Wed, 2010-01-06 at 12:44 -0500, Christopher Beland wrote:
>    
>> It appears the screen size on the Asus 701ee is 800x480?  That seems
>> like a reasonable resolution to expect Fedora to work without *horrible*
>> UI problems.
>>      
> I'm finding it very hard to think of any other remotely current bit of
> hardware you might conceivably want to run Fedora on, which doesn't have
> at least 600 pixels vertically.
>
> The last time I had a system with this problem was a Sony Vaio
> Picturebook C1XD - which was 1024x480. I bought that system in 2001. The
> Picturebook line went to 600 pixels vertically with the next revision.
> It was discontinued several years ago...
>    

Look at the OQO (oqo.com)  Still native 800x480...

I have 4 of the model 2s that I use for portable test systems.





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