On Wed, Mar 24, 2010 at 10:28:46PM -0400, J wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 24, 2010 at 22:18, Roy <linuxcanuck@
>
> Sounds like maybe this could be a good learning experience. Puppy, as
> was suggested, or #!CrunchBang (My favorite netbook distro) or Ubuntu
> Netbook Remix perhaps...
If they want to learn rather than actually do something. :)
>
> Installing is easy... a lot easier than installing Windows in my
> experience. Though that statement only applies to current distros...
> that was not always the case ;-)
Did I mention that someone at work brought in their friend--they'
their Windows install one too many times and wanted Ubuntu. *IT*
installed out of the box, whereas with Windows, even wired networking
wasn't working without a driver disk, which of course, they'd lost.
>
> +1 on Scott's suggestion of running df -h from a command line, if you
> aren't sure which hard disk you have, Sharon.
>
> However, I wonder if there's not a bit of miscommunication here... Sharon said:
>
> Model name: Aspire one
>
> OS: Linpus Linux Lite v1.0.6.E
>
> CPU: Intel(R) Atom CPU N270 @ 1.6 GHz
>
> System memory: 8 GB
>
> BIOS version: v0.319
>
> I paid out the nose for a full sized laptop with 4GB of memory...
Ahhhh--yup I bet that she misread something there. The Aspire could
only take 1 GB at the time, at most. And, to do that, you had to
disassemble the entire machine--I mean ENTIRE. You had to take the
rubber feet off the bottom, because they were over the screws you needed
to access.
>
> I have a feeling that what she posted "System Memory: 8GB" is actually
> the storage space, not RAM.
Yup, which means that she does have the SSD version--so, you (and Roy)
know more about Ubuntu and its offshoots than I do, which one would have
the least number of updates. Would #!Crunchbang work for a newcomer?
(You and I have more experience with *box--I don't know what it looks
like these days, simply no time.)
>
> Unless Acer snuck one in... I'd have gotten that over my Lenovo S10 if
> I could get 8GB of ram in it ;-)
Nope, no way. She probably has 512MB of RAM, which was standard on the
Linux edition--that was another spec where the Windows one was better,
came with 1GB.
Ok, so now that we've established that she has the 8GB SSD, remember
that installing an Ubuntu, then updating it, could take hours. So I
think I'd recommend either puppy or #!Crunchbang, but #!Crunchbang would
(possibly) have a learning curve. Don't know about the Ubuntu netbook
edition, I showed it to my wife who wasn't interested. (She found that
Ubuntu--actually, I think I put eeeBuntu on it at the time--was really
not very dissimilar from her Mac. Of course, Lucid will be even more
familiar, withe that OS X like background.
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