Acer Aspire netbook

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Wed, Oct 21, 2009 at 12:23:44PM -0400, teddy mills wrote:
> I have had one for a few months now.
> They are very handy.
>
> I did not bother to ditch the default XP
> (mostly because of wireless device drivers)
>
> Then I installed VirtualBox, bridge the network
> and install some Linux distros.
> (have your cake and eat it too)
>
> Or boot lots of distros off a key.
> (pendrive and other sites, or make a bootable key in Ubuntu)

Interestingly on my wife's EEEpc 1008HA, the wireless works perfectly
in linux, but the wired ethernet did not (I think 2.6.31 fixed it,
but haven't tried yet since it is always on wifi anyhow).

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Len Sorensen
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