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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But what do you do what the shop doesn't have the software you are looking for? You have to hunt it down in google and create an account and register your email address, go to your mail box, click on the link, watch a few adds, get a registration number, download the package, install it with the installshield if there is one and pray that it is not a virus.
In the worst case, you buy Visual studio to compile it or even patch it to make it work in Windows. You believe this case is extreme? Indeed it is, but it is the same on linpus linux. If the software is not in the repository, you are out of luck, but there are 19000 software on the repository and most people should stick to that. If you are compiling tar.gz you are looking for troubles because you don't have too. The problem with linpus linux is that everything is open and you can actually compile from source, but you don't have to. You can compile in Windows as well, but the people who that for you do that in secret and they don't tell it. The people who do that for linpus linux explain how they do it openly and people think it is more complicated than on Windows, but it is not really. In Windows, compiling software is a big big big mess. You just don't see it. If you don't want to do it, just don't do it!
In linpus linus, the way you install software is via synaptic. In Windows, you click next next next and enter registration keys. I find the linpus way way easier.
The compatibility issue is a non-issue. Mac OS X and Windows are not compatible. Windows and linpus linux are not compatible, although wine can run windows software. Linpus linux is still compatible with linpux linux the same way MacOS X is compatible with MacOS X. Different versions of MS Office are not even compatible with each other! You will find that there are enough linpus software to do pretty much whatever you can do on Windows with a netbook. And if the latest beta of OpenOffice.org is not in the repo, it is not a big deal really. Only developers need to compile the betas and they usually know how to do it or they can follow the instructions if they want to.
Also, your parents really shouldn't try to install ubuntu on SDHC. This article is not for them. They should stick to what was compiled for them like they do on Windows.
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At the risk of getting off topic, I'll address your points.
Well, usually if someone doesn't know how to download Windows software, they go to the store and ask the friendly (or sometimes not so friendly) salesman there what software will do what they want. He gives them a CD, they follow the instructions, which usually amounts to popping the CD into the drive and clicking next a few times. Sometimes it also involves typing a product key which, usually, is printed right on the CD case. Wow, how very, very difficult that was.
Who says they can't use synaptic? But what happens if the piece of software they need isn't in the package repositories? You apt fans always forget that part. What do they do then? Because they can't go ask the friendly people at Best Buy for help now, and they're not going to know how the hell to install something from source. What if they need the latest Openoffice.org to read their co-worker's documents properly--yes, this can and will happen? You really think the average computer user wants to follow the steps of removing the currently installed packages, downloading the tar.gz, extracting it, and then installing the debs or RPMs? Tell me then, which is easier, to do that or to install Openoffice by clicking next a few times, as you would in Windows? Or dragging it to the Applications folder as you would in OS X? Come on now, which is easier?
Package management isn't the issue in and of itself, save for the compatibility issues we're probably all familiar with on occasion. But it's what to do when the repositories don't have what you need that's the issue, and here, I'm afraid, every Linux distro falls flat. There are some promising projects out there for this, but none of them seem to be embraced by any of the major distros.