Linked by Thom Holwerda on Sun 1st Mar 2009 17:26 UTC, submitted by kaiwai
Long-time OSNews reader Kaiwai has written down his experiences with his Acer Aspire One, Linux, and Windows. He concludes: "After a hectic few weeks trying to get Linux to work, I am back to square one again - a netbook running Windows XP SP3 as it was provided by Acer when I purchased it. I gave three different distributions a chance to prove themselves. I expected all three distributions to wipe the floor with Windows XP - after all, these are the latest and greatest distributions the Linux world have to offer. There has been at least 7 years since the release of Windows XP for Linux to catch up to Windows XP and from my experience with Linux on this said device - it has failed to step up to the plate when it was needed."
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RE[4]: Mandriva 2009.0 and the Acer Aspire One
by lemur2 on Mon 2nd Mar 2009 11:26
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So the best you can do is provide me with a link to an obscure linux distribution from Italy which I would never have known about had you not provided me a link to it.
The opportunity for 'Linux' to make its way onto my Netbook was last week, not today. Where were you and your distribution one week ago when I was trying to get Linux working? where was this distribution? if it is so damn useful then it should be appearing when I put acer aspire one linux distribution in google.
The opportunity for 'Linux' to make its way onto my Netbook was last week, not today. Where were you and your distribution one week ago when I was trying to get Linux working? where was this distribution? if it is so damn useful then it should be appearing when I put acer aspire one linux distribution in google.
This is the very first link that comes up when you put your suggested search term (acer aspire one linux distribution) into google:
http://www.liliputing.com/2009/01/kuki-linux-custom-distro-for-the-...
What do you know, another one! Both of them re-masters of Ubuntu.
Kuki Linux.
http://kuki.me/
... and a reference to Linux4One in the second sentence of the Lilliputing article.
I think perhaps you possibly may not have tried very hard to look.
Edited 2009-03-02 11:32 UTC
RE[5]: Mandriva 2009.0 and the Acer Aspire One
by Thom_Holwerda on Mon 2nd Mar 2009 11:32
in reply to "RE[4]: Mandriva 2009.0 and the Acer Aspire One"
Member since:2005-06-29
I think perhaps you possibly may not have tried very hard to look.
Kaiwai has a point. I don't do these obscure Linux distributions either. You have no idea what their staying power is or how well tested they are.
I only stick to the major distributions. I don't have time to keep track of the ten billion million others.
RE[4]: Mandriva 2009.0 and the Acer Aspire One
by nobody on Mon 2nd Mar 2009 11:31
in reply to "RE[3]: Mandriva 2009.0 and the Acer Aspire One"
Member since:2006-06-02
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So the best you can do is provide me with a link to an obscure linux distribution from Italy which I would never have known about had you not provided me a link to it.
The opportunity for 'Linux' to make its way onto my Netbook was last week, not today. Where were you and your distribution one week ago when I was trying to get Linux working? where was this distribution? if it is so damn useful then it should be appearing when I put acer aspire one linux distribution in google.