On Wed, 2009-02-04 at 15:07 +0000, Mark Rogers wrote:
Wayne Stallwood wrote:
Hmm...My Aspire is no longer running the stock linpus distro..but when it was I had no issue with memory sticks not working. The file manager should just show them on the left..or I think you get a pop up anyway.
How easy is the upgrade to a different distro, and which distro did you go with?
Mine now has Ubuntu 8.10 on it (not the Netbook remix version) there is a wiki page on the ubuntu wiki about how to do various tweaks (most of which are only super relevant to the SSD version)
Following those was an easy enough process and everything works now except a little bit of unreliability with suspend/resume..not that it matters to me because the thing is pretty darn fast at booting anyway so I tend to just shut it down.
Linpus in itself isn't that bad though..you can add the fedora repositories to Yum and drop the task based destkop menu..enable right click on xfce and you are pretty much set. The only reason I changed was because I decided I would like the same versions of everything as my desktop and little things like the Gnome Network manager working with my clients VPN's better than the connection manager linpus uses. I am sure I could have tweaked out the small issues I had with linpus with relative ease though.
What are they like as boxes? I'd been toying with the idea of getting one myself.
I love mine...it doesn't have the battery life of the later Asus machines but the keyboard is better and it is cheaper (if you can still find them..Acer have discontinued them now I hear). It has turned out to be one of the most useful computers I have owned getting me out of spots on various occasions whilst being small and cheap enough to leave in the glovebox of the car.
Last time I had a look pixmaina still had the 8GB SSD version (same as mine) for less than £200. If battery life is a concern then you can get an extended life battery for £40ish..stock it is about 2-3hours runtime.