OSNews: http://www.osnews.com/story/20721/Linux4one_Ubuntu_for_the_Acer_Aspire_One Exploring the Future of Computing en-us Copyright 2001-2009, David Adams adam+nospam@osnews.com Fri, 27 Nov 2009 01:55:33 GMT http://www.osnews.com/images/osnews.gif OSNews.com http://www.osnews.com Any more info? http://osnews.com/thread?342222 http://osnews.com/thread?342222 It would be nice if there was a bit more info. How much slower then Linplus is it? Does it work properly with a SSD drive? I know the other link says devices work, but I have seen too many reviews that say "everything works...but the webcam."

Eventually I'll have to buy one of these things so I can play with it, but for my portable needs I like a bigger screen. And my wife wont let me touch hers to play with. She is quite happy with Linplus for the time being. Sat, 03 Jan 2009 17:22:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (uteck) Comments Stock Fedora 10 http://osnews.com/thread?342246 http://osnews.com/thread?342246 In the for-what-its-worth department, i'm posting this message from my AA1 running plain-Jane Fedora 10. Installed the live-cd version of Fedora 10 via a thumb drive. Have had no issues with any hardware at all, although my AA1 has a 160GB standard hard drive rather than SSD. Webcam and yahoo video chat (GYachE) worked out of the box without any fuss. Sat, 03 Jan 2009 22:57:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (tux68) Comments RE: Any more info? http://osnews.com/thread?342254 http://osnews.com/thread?342254
And my wife wont let me touch hers to play with.


Just take her by surprise, that often works; if she doesn't loosen up a bit try massive amounts of flowers, or foot massages; or make sure there's a local power-down. :-) Sat, 03 Jan 2009 23:48:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (h3rman) Comments RE[2]: Any more info? http://osnews.com/thread?342266 http://osnews.com/thread?342266 Ahh.. you know where it starts but not where it ends.. Would probably be cheaper and less resource-consuming just to buy another one ;) Sun, 04 Jan 2009 03:59:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (avih) Comments RE: Stock Fedora 10 http://osnews.com/thread?342312 http://osnews.com/thread?342312 I too am posting from F10 that works out of the box (with the addition of broadcom-wl from rpm-fusion) on a netbook. Mine is the lenovo s10, 2GB RAM, 160MB, 1.6MHz and everything does work except that the battery applet crashes on sleep.

What is the big deal here? Sun, 04 Jan 2009 22:47:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (roddog) Comments OpenSuse 11.1 works a treat on the Aspire One http://osnews.com/thread?342344 http://osnews.com/thread?342344 After a brief flirt with Fedora 10 (which mostly worked OK but I had problems with WiFi), I've switched to OpenSuse 11.1 and everything works. It's a standard install from the DVD image. It's quick enough for KDE4's 3D desktop effects. WiFi and Ethernet work fine and suspend and hibernate both work. I haven't tried to install webcam drivers as I'm not interested in using it.

I couldn't be more satisfied with it all. Mon, 05 Jan 2009 08:47:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (overflow) Comments RE[2]: Stock Fedora 10 http://osnews.com/thread?342347 http://osnews.com/thread?342347 The big deal is that Ubuntu (and others) have brought the "just works" culture to Linux. There's a craze with having everything prefabricated, so the user doesn't have to do anything at all. Even if a special AA1 version of Ubuntu doesn't do anything that special, just the idea of it being there is tantalizing to some.

I'm not quite that bad. I am a little guilty of being part of that culture, since I use Mint, but if I had a netbook of any sort I'd probably just install Mint on it as it is. Mon, 05 Jan 2009 09:21:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Moredhas) Comments Linpus not so bad at all http://osnews.com/thread?342440 http://osnews.com/thread?342440 Linpus is really not bad at all. It starts up fast, battery is (relatively) good and all of the hardware works, including the (pretty poor) 0.3mp camera.

For some excellent advice on how to customise it:

http://macles.blogspot.com/

I have the 8GB SSD version and have it customized with:
- Custom icons
- Firefox 3
- OpenOffice 3
- Mplayer with front-end KMplayer
- Basket Notepad
- Videolan media player
- KMyMoney2
- Wine
- Thunderbird with Gmail IMAP account and with Lightning and GcalDaemon (Syncing heaven!!)
- Google Picasa (latest beta)

Strangely KDE apps seem to install easier than Gnome apps, which I usually run into dependency problems with.

Perfect setup for me... and I think it could be for a lot of people, so I thought I'd share it.Edited 2009-01-06 08:10 UTC Tue, 06 Jan 2009 08:09:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Darkelve) Comments Why? http://osnews.com/thread?342449 http://osnews.com/thread?342449 I simply COULD NOT get the package manager to work on Linpus, and it took ten minutes to update the package list. There was definitely something wrong. I put Ubuntu on the machine instead; the trade-off was 1/3 of the battery life, but at least Ubuntu works properly on there and it required minimal tweaking to get everything working properly. Everything except the wireless worked out-of-the-box (wireless was an apt-get and a modprobe away). And yes, the webcam, suspend, and special keys worked out-of-the-box. I put the Ubuntu netbook launcher on it.

Unless this distribution gives me 3 hours of battery life like Linpus did, then I don't see the point as probably everything will work out-of-the-box in Jaunty anyway, and nearly everything does in Intrepid. Tue, 06 Jan 2009 10:43:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (3rdalbum) Comments RE: OpenSuse 11.1 works a treat on the Aspire One http://osnews.com/thread?342456 http://osnews.com/thread?342456 I have the same experience, openSuSE 11.0 on my Acer One 150b (1,5GB RAM-120GB HDD), it had XP on it but the first thing I did , before windows defragments the HDD, I split the HDD in two and put SuSE on it in dual boot mode. Tue, 06 Jan 2009 12:35:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Eerde) Comments RE[3]: Stock Fedora 10 http://osnews.com/thread?342475 http://osnews.com/thread?342475
The big deal is that Ubuntu (and others) have brought the "just works" culture to Linux.


A good thing IMO. I'm not averse to spending time messing with my AA1 (or any other computer for that matter) until it's perfect for me.

Most folks just want to switch on and hit YouTube. If linux is to progress it *has* to "just work". Tue, 06 Jan 2009 14:56:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (B12 Simon) Comments