[ubuntu-za] Creating a stir

[Alf Stockton]

Gustav H Meyer wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I must confess that I was doubtful of this device until I was asked to 
> help a friend who bought the cheap R1,999 Acer Aspire One A110 for his 
> daughters this weekend. He also bought an HP laser printer with it. The 
> printer was detected correctly but it would not print anything.
> 
> Knowing others on http://floss.pro/ who own the netbook I suggested that 
> we install Ubuntu Netbook Remix (UNR) 9.04 on it. After getting a 
> bootable USB image from a friend we had a fully working Ubuntu based 
> system optimised for the small screen installed in less than an hour 
> complete with all the software that you may ever need. We also installed 
> the driver for the printer and everything is in perfect working 
> condition at this stage.
> 
> The only issue we really struggled with was to force a stable GPRS 
> connection in an area with poor mobile coverage, but this issue is a 
> Ubuntu 9.04 / GNOME network manager issue not being flexible enough, 
> hopefully something that will be fixed in the latest release. The mobile 
> device, an old HUWAI E220 USB modem from Vodacom was detected in modern 
> plug and play fashion, a real breeze.
> 
> For increased peformance I would suggest getting a netbook with a faster 
> and perhaps also a more traditional hard disk drive rather than the 
> solid state disk and I would also increase the RAM to at least 1GB. I'm 
> still wondering about the lifetime of the solid state disk with 
> applications that do a lot of writing to disk, eg. Firefox.
> 
> Other than that this device is a real good buy. In fact I think this 
> friend of mine is underestimating the value of what he just bought and 
> he should rather have bought it for himself.
> 
> REAL VALUE FOR MONEY!!! That's my humble opinion.
> 
> Thanks for all the help from the guys on IRC at #ubuntu-za and on 
> floss.pro <http://floss.pro>.
> 
I have installed Karmic 9.10 on my MSI U100 netbook by following the 
instructions at http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=7604488#post7604488
and retrieved the iso at
http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/ubuntu-netbook-remix/daily-live/current/
Wireless connection is all that I have used up to this point in time but 
Firefox & Evolution & ssh all seem to be working fine and it looks quite reliable.

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Alf Stockton		www.stockton.co.za

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