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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2008-10-23
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.
Edited 2009-01-09 21:04 UTC