The GNU+Linux 'NetBook' may easily become Linux' home in everyday consumer electronics. At least sofar as desktop applications. The eeepc started the trend, and now dozens of other vendors are jumping in. Intel, AMD, and nVidia even, are making chips just for this market. Check out the Intel Atom CPU in it's picture at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_Atom. Wow.
I bought an Acer Aspire One to play with at the LUG and to give to a family member at Christmas. It's one of the first Intel Atom Netbooks out there. It comes with a distro called Linpus, which is an ofshoot of Fedora. I actually plan to, compare it with Ubuntu Netbook Edition, and the Fedora 10 version of its own packages. Any thoughts on what elseyou want to see it do would be welcome. I just bought it today, so I will not likely have it by the meeting Wednesday. But I should have it the next three meetings after that, and will be using it myself intermittently.
http://www.acer.com/aspireone/ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aspire_One
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On Sat, Nov 1, 2008 at 10:57 PM, Billy Crook billycrook@gmail.com wrote:
It comes with a distro called Linpus, which is an ofshoot of Fedora.
That sounds like what comes out of a Linfection. After the Linzits burst, they can become Open Sores. Then you nead Lintibiotic Ointment. Consult your physician if irritation persists. Keep out of direct sunlight. Do not taunt Happy Fun Ball.
I know we geeks tend to mock marketdroids, but damn. Who comes up with a name like that?
Yeah that Taiwanese company sure didn't do a lot of research to see what "Linpus" would imply in other languages. Hehe. :)
Jeffrey.
On Sun, Nov 2, 2008 at 7:50 AM, Monty J. Harder mjharder@gmail.com wrote:
On Sat, Nov 1, 2008 at 10:57 PM, Billy Crook billycrook@gmail.com wrote:
It comes with a distro called Linpus, which is an ofshoot of Fedora.
That sounds like what comes out of a Linfection. After the Linzits burst, they can become Open Sores. Then you nead Lintibiotic Ointment. Consult your physician if irritation persists. Keep out of direct sunlight. Do not taunt Happy Fun Ball.
I know we geeks tend to mock marketdroids, but damn. Who comes up with a name like that?
On Sat, 1 Nov 2008, Billy Crook wrote:
I bought an Acer Aspire One to play with at the LUG and to give to a family member at Christmas. It's one of the first Intel Atom Netbooks out there. It comes with a distro called Linpus, which is an ofshoot of Fedora. I actually plan to, compare it with Ubuntu Netbook Edition, and the Fedora 10 version of its own packages. Any thoughts on what elseyou want to see it do would be welcome. I just bought it
The Acer One has some very interesting hardware and I'm still finding more surprises...
Try the newest 2.6.27 kernels with the native ath5k wireless driver. Did you know the Atheros AR5006EG chip has 58 channels up to 2.732 GHz at 501mW? You can find these settings in /usr/src/linux/net/wireless/reg.c
-=Duane
On Sun, Nov 2, 2008 at 8:49 AM, Duane Attaway dattaway@dattaway.net wrote:
The Acer One has some very interesting hardware and I'm still finding more surprises...
One of the current flaws I see is that it won't boot off of the SD card slot and IIRC the Eee PC will. I could be misremembering. Having the SD slot bootable is very nice to run other distros on it without killing the install on the internal SSD or HDD, and also upgrade the size of the boot device very easily.
Jon.
I almost bought one of those on Saturday. Would you keep a regular laptop after buying one of these? Would you consider it a replacement for the laptop, an alternative or just a cool toy?
I tried one of the EeePCs and the keys were small enough I can't see using it for everything. In fact I ended up not getting one of those and just waited and got a full-size laptop.
Brian Kelsay
-----Original Message----- From: kclug-bounces@kclug.org [mailto:kclug-bounces@kclug.org] On Behalf Of Billy Crook Sent: Saturday, November 01, 2008 10:58 PM To: KCLUG Subject: Acer Aspire One
The GNU+Linux 'NetBook' may easily become Linux' home in everyday consumer electronics. At least sofar as desktop applications. The eeepc started the trend, and now dozens of other vendors are jumping in. Intel, AMD, and nVidia even, are making chips just for this market. Check out the Intel Atom CPU in it's picture at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_Atom. Wow.
I bought an Acer Aspire One to play with at the LUG and to give to a family member at Christmas. It's one of the first Intel Atom Netbooks out there. It comes with a distro called Linpus, which is an ofshoot of Fedora. I actually plan to, compare it with Ubuntu Netbook Edition, and the Fedora 10 version of its own packages. Any thoughts on what elseyou want to see it do would be welcome. I just bought it today, so I will not likely have it by the meeting Wednesday. But I should have it the next three meetings after that, and will be using it myself intermittently.
http://www.acer.com/aspireone/ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aspire_One
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On Mon, Nov 3, 2008 at 12:35, Kelsay, Brian - Kansas City, MO brian.kelsay@kcc.usda.gov wrote:
I almost bought one of those on Saturday. Would you keep a regular laptop after buying one of these?
Abso-friggin-lutely!
Would you consider it a replacement for the laptop, an alternative or just a cool toy?
Toy/alternative. Long term, this thing is for my mom to get her youtubes, intarnets, and email. I don't see her ever needing/using significant horse power.
I tried one of the EeePCs and the keys were small enough I can't see using it for everything.
The size of the eee keyboard wasn't what got be so much as the key placement. The Aspire looks a little larger though.
In fact I ended up not getting one of those and just waited and got a full-size laptop.
The xo and eee I (breifly) had became another family gift. I wonder what my thoughts on the Aspire will be when it actually arrives.... Hopefully if I really like it, I can catch some more at the next wootoff.
On Mon, 3 Nov 2008, Kelsay, Brian - Kansas City, MO wrote:
I almost bought one of those on Saturday. Would you keep a regular laptop after buying one of these? Would you consider it a replacement for the laptop, an alternative or just a cool toy?
I tried one of the EeePCs and the keys were small enough I can't see using it for everything. In fact I ended up not getting one of those and just waited and got a full-size laptop.
This is my desktop replacement! The keyboard layout is much better than my eeepc. Screen size is perfect for two side by side terminals.
I run gentoo on mine. Its pretty fast at 3193 bogomips with the core2 instruction set. Some people say the Atom is slow, but I believe that's famous Intel marketing just like they did with the Celeron. The hard drive speed isn't bad either: 61MB/sec. That makes it quick for compiling code.
Laptops with 15" screens are way to big!
On Mon, Nov 3, 2008 at 5:27 PM, Duane Attaway dattaway@dattaway.net wrote:
I run gentoo on mine. Its pretty fast at 3193 bogomips with the core2 instruction set. Some people say the Atom is slow, but I believe that's famous Intel marketing just like they did with the Celeron. The hard drive speed isn't bad either: 61MB/sec. That makes it quick for compiling code.
Clock-per-clock the Atom is slower. The Celerons used in the early Eee PCs (700 series) were down clocked any way (571-630MHz), and later Celeron Eee PCs (900 series) were only 900MHz. The Atoms are running at 1.6GHz so they still clean the clock of the downclocked Celerons because they are running at over twice the clock rate. The best advantage is power consumption though. Twice the battery life means I'm waiting for an Atom Eee to drop in price, or find another Atom netbook at a very low price.
Jon.
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