I've now got Mint 9 running on the desktop and (after a distinctly anxious spot of DIY replacing the screen) on a netbook with a 8.9" screen.

The netbook may be of interest to Scylla and others with similar items.

It's an early Aspire One, with the usual "wide-screen" aspect ratio which now seems the norm.

So far, Mint 9 simply works on both the desktop (an elderly Dell GX260 - 2.0GHz CPU/1GB RAM) and the netbook (1.6GHz Intel Atom/1GB RAM.) I'm pretty sure it would function very happily on even lower-spec machinery, down to 512mb RAM.

I think it copes with the netbook and its little screen just as tidily as Ubuntu Netbook Remix does; I personally prefer the Mint lay-out.

One interesting observation. I confidently told Scylla where to find GParted, as I was looking at it at the time while running UNR off a flash drive. Mint also showed it during a live session.

Once Mint was installed - no GParted! Most odd and of course, it only took a minute to install it through Synaptic.

But apologies, Scylla, if I had you searching your menus over and over again. It looks as if GParted is present on the live CD/flash drive, but that it is not installed by default when one installs to the hard drive.