I run ubuntu 10.04nbr on my eeepc off of an sd card. It varies between truly awful and not that bad, depending on the particular card I'm using. None of them ar

I run ubuntu 10.04nbr on my eeepc off of an sd card. It varies between truly awful and not that bad, depending on the particular card I'm using. None of them are top of the line cards, mostly Transcend SDHCs of various capacities. The 8 gb one works well, one of the 16s is ok, the other is crap. The higher speed, larger cards are optimized for throughput, not random writes. In the ok range, I could get work done-- chrome, emacs, and a web stack running. Page loads revere slow, but usable. I don't think I'd set a machine up this way again, it's just too much of a pain for what I'm getting out of it.