Linked by Thom Holwerda on Wed 20th Aug 2008 01:43 UTC, submitted by Rahul
"Me and Bobby Powers have spent a few hours smoothing out the process of getting fully-featured Linux desktops to boot on the XO laptop. On the whole, OLPC developers have been pretty good at getting code upstream, so only a few fixups are needed to get things operational on the XO." On a slightly (stretching it here) related note, here is a detailed guide on installing and optimising Ubuntu on the Acer Aspire One that we reviewed last week. I replaced the default Linpus installation with Ubuntu using this guide, and I must say that I am quite pleased.
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2005-06-29
The default Linpus installation is fully optimised and functional out-of-the-box on the One, but sadly, it locks users out fo the advanced Linux stuff (i.e. panel is hardcoded-locked down, desktop is locked, no Bluetooth stack, no package manager, limited email/IM clients, etc.).
In addition, it's RPM-based, and I'm more comfortable with Debian-based systems.
So, I installed Ubuntu, which is not yet optimised for the Atom platform, let alone the One itself. As such, I had to do several optimisations manually.
This was a matter of choice, not a must. For 90% of the people, the default Linpus installation will work just fine, and no optimisation is needed.