Acer Aspire netbook

Darryl Moore darryl-90a536wCiRb3fQ9qLvQP4Q at public.gmane.org
Wed Oct 21 18:03:28 UTC 2009


My Aspire One came with a version of Linux. A pretty crappy distro that
does more to explain the current prevalence of XP on sub-notebooks then
anything MS could have ever concocted.

I quickly install Ubuntu Netbook Remix, and it has worked great since.
The only thing I don't have working is the little LED for the Wifi. I
know there is a patch for this to get it working too. I just haven't
bothered. I expect the Karmic version of this distro will address that
anyways.


Lennart Sorensen wrote:
> 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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