I treated myself to one, such good value and after all a bit of a
historical landmark for desktop consumer Linux. Some more books for Xmas
rather than this:) It's a cool device and the best value for money. In
fact it's better than my VIA EPIA 500 for many tasks and will hook this up
to a monitor for a perfectly good primary home workstation. The EPIA stays
as a solid partially 'dumb' terminal.
Here are some hacks for the Acer Aspire One if anyone has one.
http://www.linuxhaxor.net/2008/09/27/30-cool-acer-aspire-one-hacks/
Including a quiet fan hack, the only fault as far as I'm concerned. A
battery upgrade will be made available from Acer (almost certainly from
3rd party dealers) and will take the battery life from about 2 to 4 hours
I believe. There is a Screenshot of Ubuntu Netbook Re-mix at the top of
the page. I was over at a friends house Friday as he installed Ubuntu on
his Asus EEE. Impressively smooth MS XP preparation tool and simple with a
4G data-stick but I'll stick to Linpus as I'm a Fedora fan, really like
XFCE and all the hardware functions are implemented.
Got a couple of upcoming short haul flights to take so this little beast
will be perfect:)
Damian
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Damian L Brasher
http://www.diap.org.uk - Quick and low-cost way to make an environment
more robust by backing up data in multiple places.
