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Bought a Acer Aspire One

With a little help from my friends (Andreas Thiennemann in particular), I managed to get my hands on a piece of equipment I was planning on buying anyway; a netbook.

Here in Canada though, these things are particularly cheap.

Next on the list of things to do is:

  1. Never boot anything but a superior version of the greatest Operating System on a piece of equipment as cool as a netbook. The first thing that Acer will attempt to boot is a Windows Vista based eRecovery Suite in order for you to install Windows XP Home. I rest my case.
  2. Download Fedora 12.
  3. Check the list of things you need to know before trying all kinds of things to make the foo work. In my case, I found this page very useful. For one, it helped me boot Fedora ;-)

Jeroen I also have a AAO and

Jeroen

I also have a AAO and running F12 on it without problem. Just a few notes - the AAO doesn't have Bluetooth so don't waste time trying to get it to run. You might try the Fedora Moblin gui - I didn't like it. I personally prefer KDE. Sound works on KDE but not on my Gnome (maybe i'm missing some setting). Suspend works if I sign off that way - lid closing doesnt' work for me. Video capture with Cheese is real jerky - maybe hardware, maybe Cheese - don't know of another program to capture video thru camera but would be good to test. The AAO comes with 3 or 6 cell battery - I have 3 and only get about 1.5 hrs battery life - really need the 6 cell. Wifi seems to work fine.

My conclusion: it's really handy for bringing to meetings - both for using and carrying. But I have lots of trouble with touchpad sensitivity and touchbar location. I see it as stopgap until nice tablets show up next year.

  • By john (not verified) at 12/09/2009 - 23:00
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