[Wiltshire] I'm back online at last but...

[John Larkworthy]

It's not my Acer but my partners. She uses it with the Linpus distro as supplied which works very well. (I am banned from breaking it!)

I am however debating whether to get one of my own. I want a low power network display capable of running something like OpenCPN and uploading standard Marine Charts.

Linpus has been heavily modified by Acer to support the typical Office productivity and web browsing habits of a typical user.  It has a 'nice' front page and auto logs in so it feels very much like a personal 'MS Windows' computer but with pretty icons across the desktop for Web, email, word processing etc.
My partner has used it successfully in the Internet Cafe near her flat in Torrevieja (Spain) as well as at home on the internal Wireless network.

I am not sure that I would want to install a standard distro on such a machine. I know the effort that people like Asus spend trying to simplify or even get it working on their hardware that does not always propagate back into the main line development of Linux. I know that Linpus is based on RedHat so closely that Linpus recomend downloading the rpm for firefox to upgrade if the browser does not meet you needs. 
I would hope that if you need to use the netbook as a development machine you could download and install the relevant RPMs from RedHat or Fedora and work with those.

John.

(I have been very active in developing the firmware to support Oxford Semiconductors NAS product range, and from this know how specialist hardware support may not be ported into the standard kernel)
The flat in Torrevieja is available to rent through: http://www.villarenters.com/advert_summary.asp?ref=38217



----- Original Message ----
From: Greg Browne <greg.browne at gmail.com>
To: dave at thefletchers.net; wiltshire at mailman.lug.org.uk
Sent: Monday, 22 December, 2008 11:52:07
Subject: Re: [Wiltshire] I'm back online at last but...

A Useful reminder of why this works - thanks. Acer One? I tried one in
a shop and was impressed by the keyboard, size, touchpad and screen.
Did it accept your Linux Distro easily and if so, which one? Greg
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Greg Browne
http://digitalanswers.info/

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