Linked by Gary Rennie on Thu 8th Jan 2009 21:06 UTC
To supplement storage space with the initial purchase of the Aspire One (8 GB SSD version), I bought a 16 GB Transcend TS16GBSDHC6 card that integrates nicely into the left card slot. The pre-installed Linux Linpus just wasn't what I needed since I use many networking tools at work and at home. I initially ran Ubuntu 8.041 with the /home partition on the 16 GB SDHC card. I discovered Eeebuntu while searching for information on how to boot and run Linux off a SDHC card. The goal was of multi-boot installations of Ubuntu, with one install specifically loaded with the tools I use at work. The Acer Aspire One BIOS does not 'see' the card, so you can't boot from it using the [F12] startup key (More on the SDHC boot up further in this article).
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The guy who wrote the article is obviously an OS and hardware enthusiast who loves the Small, simple hardware, and also wants to use it for something more advanced that a typical user would care about.
What he did was undertake a journey to install a different distribution of linux with his own tweaks for work purposes, and he cared enough to document the process for others who might also be so inclined...
Thank goodness for people who do these things. I recently wanted to tweak my kernel and it really helped to find other people who had done the same thing... I was able to pop in, set the exact flags I needed without guessing, build it and now I am running my custom kernel, and it is sweet.
So thanks to all the people out there who experiment and document.