Linux distribution tailored for netbooks?
Rui Maciel
distribution to upgrade the system. As the model I've purchased comes with a flash SSD then I believe I need to adopt a linux
distribution that takes that into account and tweaks it's packages accordingly.
So, what's available out there?
Thanks in advance,
Rui Maciel
ray
Suggest you look for Debian. I installed Deb on my wife's new eeepc
following the Debian eeepc wiki (we didn't care for the dumbed down
xandros that was included). It was a piece of cake - from putting the
Debian net install on a USB flash drive to booting (the wireless was
active on startup) to completion and updating. Don't know if they have a
wike for the acer, but that's where I'd start looking.
Michael Black
"Linpus" is supposed to be tailored for netbooks. It's hard to tell,
there doesn't seem to be that much there, yet it sure takes up enough
space on the "hard drive".
The same with the EEEPC, the distribution that was included with it
was some oddball distribution.
There seems to have been more work done on the EEEPC than the Aspire
One, including a distribution or two tailored specifically for it
(obviously a derivitive of a major distribution).
One guy has described how he put Slackware on the Aspire One,
http://www.thev.net/cgi-bin/awki.cgi/_Acer_Aspire_One_?stamp=1221614962
I haven't done anything yet, but it's likely going to be Slackware
on my Aspire One, since I use Slackware already.
I have come across some other links that may be worth looking over:
<https://help.ubuntu.com/community/AspireOne>
<http://bad.ilink.lv/2008/07/guide-how-to-install-xubintu-on-acer
-aspire-one>
another page about xubuntu and the Aspire One:
<http://www.skyshadows.net/?cat=5>
And then there's a general page that might have some useful links:
<http://www.aspireoneuser.com>
This isn't comprehensive. Xubuntu seems maybe aimed at netbooks.
I've tried DSL on a USB flash drive, and everything I've tried works
(I haven't tried wireless, for instance, since I don't have wireless
at home) but the Aspire One is really a full blown system no matter
what some may say, so it really deserves a full system, albeit trimmed
down. I did a limited install on my hard drive of Slackware, in a
separate partition with the intent of using it to get things right
for the Aspire One (but haven't gotten very far) and stripped of
KDE and the associated big gui applications, plus no server packages
and no documentation or emacs, and it's down to about 2gigs.
Michael
ray
Suggest you look at http://wiki.debian.org/DebianAcerOne
Baron
> On Sun, 8 Mar 2009, Rui Maciel wrote:
>
>> I've recently purchased an Acer Aspire One and, as the default linpus
>> install is a bit on the crap side, I am looking for a new linux
>> distribution to upgrade the system. As the model I've purchased comes
>> with a flash SSD then I believe I need to adopt a linux distribution
>> that takes that into account and tweaks it's packages accordingly.
I bought my XYL an "Acer One" for Christmas... She loves it !
>> So, what's available out there?
>>
> "Linpus" is supposed to be tailored for netbooks. It's hard to tell,
> there doesn't seem to be that much there, yet it sure takes up enough
> space on the "hard drive".
Once you have got over the shock of almost everything being an icon, it
works very well. In the few months that she has had the "Acer" she has
found more local wireless hot spots that I never knew existed. This
Netbook is her first computer and her first look at Linux.
Michael I would be interested to learn how you get on with an
alternative distribution on your "Acer One"
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Best Regards:
Baron.