My brother has an eee pc 900A white netbook-- dual core 1.6Ghz Atom CPU, and a small internal 4GB SSD drive running some crap version of Linux. It has since been upgraded to Ubuntu 10 and then Ubuntu 11.10 but . . . the problem is that the internal drive is too small for updates and i can't upgrade it to Ubuntu 12.04 due to lack of space.
SSDs are pricey so . . . the solution was to get a sd card-- mainly a 32GB SDHC Class 10 (which is the fastest for regular SD cards) and i got it for $17 on sale @ Frys Electronics here in sunny California.
I formatted the 32GB SDHC card in native ubuntu linux format -- ext4 and not fat32.
I have to tell ya, Ubuntu running of this is a lot more usable in version 12.04 than version 11.10.
It is very usable and not very laggy as some people would think.
Remember to set the sd card as the primary boot drive in the BIOS and you are set!
It is a nice cost effective solution to a pricey ssd drive.
After the ubuntu 12.04 install, i ran a system update-- 329 files to update, which took about an hour and a half and after that , a reboot and everything was fine and dandy.
websites load fast in firefox, libreoffice writer launches in seconds and is ready to use, youtube flash videos play just fine in windowed mode and full screen mode.
ubuntu 12.04 is a fine os and it is free and works well with the sd card and my brother's netbook and he is one happy customer!
A big thank you to Linus Torvalds and the open source linux developer community for fixing the Linux kernel in the way it handles sd cards! Now sdhc class 10 cards are usable in Linux as a boot drive and over all storage device!
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