Archive for December, 2008
December 31, 2008 at 8:54 pm ·
For me 2008 was the year of Linux and the netbooks. It’s one thing that really stood out in my personal experience. Even here in the Philippines, I see people looking at the netbooks in stores and buying them. I also hear about friends of friends (or their relatives) buying Linux-powered netbooks. The Asus EEE must have really paved the way for this but it seems that there’s now a whole lot of competition from other manufacturers like HP, IBM and Acer. Linpus was really something made it easier for people to adapt a Linux distro for regular use. But Ubuntu Netbook Remix showed up and it seems like a good choice too for those who are used to that distro, like myself.
2008 was also the year I caved in and gave myself into the netbook fever and I think that this is an [...]
Full story: Clair
December 29, 2008 at 10:23 am ·
Intel: ATOM support now in OpenSolaris.
Full story: Werner Heuser (wehe at tuxmobil.org)
December 28, 2008 at 9:11 pm ·
I am currently using my Acer Aspire One with Ubuntu Netbook Remix. It’s noisy at home right now so I have no idea if the fan is noisy or what.
Ubuntu Netbook Remix seems to working just fine. Installing it was a breeze. Probably took just 10 minutes and I was amazed that it was so quick. Most features seem to work so far, except wireless. I installed madwifi already but it’s not yet working. Hrm. I’d still have to go through the Aspire One forums as well as Ubuntu forums for this. In any case, these things seem to work fine:
Volume buttons
Brightness buttons
Wired internet
Mute button
Battery applet - It seems to indicate how much I really still have left for power.
USB ports
I don’t what else to ask for at the moment except for wireless and for my fan to work just fine.
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December 28, 2008 at 6:56 pm ·
When I was trying to make a bootable USB flash drive, I had a moment of panic because my Aspire One didn’t seem to boot from it at one point, and at another try at writing to it, I ended up cancelling the writing in the middle. Gah~! But the blog dotkam saved me by teaching me how to restore the format of a USB flash drive. I haven’t formatted anything in Linux in ages so this gave me a crash course on using the fdisk and mkfs.vfat utilities. It did show what it’s like to use the tools, including the messages it will show when you follow the guide step by step. Although they forgot to show how you figure out what the name of your device is. You could always check it via dmesg. When I checked it out using dmesg, I [...]
Full story: Clair
December 28, 2008 at 4:23 am ·
Floola is an application to efficiently manage your iPod or your Motorola mobile phone (any model that supports iTunes) under Linux, Mac OS X, and Windows.
Full story: Werner Heuser (wehe at tuxmobil.org)
December 27, 2008 at 9:00 am ·
is my new Acer Aspire One.
Sadly they ran out of units with Linpus so I got the Windows XP version. And they ran out of the free DVD drive too. In any case, I was wondering if I could install Ubuntu Netbook Remix but the download took forever to finish. I had to leave my other laptop downloading the .img file the entire night. Another problem I have is that the .img file is 1GB and the flash drive I have here has less than that in terms of free space. I need to go out and see if I could buy one with a bigger capacity.
I also tried looking at installing Ubuntu within Windows because that’s an option. The problem with that is it will download the files from the internet too. If that’s the case I’d rather see first if I [...]
Full story: Clair
December 27, 2008 at 9:00 am ·
This wiki page was my starting point: Aspire One. It had details on tweaks you might also need to do. The Ubuntu Netbook Remix image is also mentioned on that guide. x
There are other pages which helped me too:
Installation from USB disk - This page showed me how I could turn my USB stick into a bootable Ubuntu installer. From using UNetbootbin to liveusb to the manual approach, you could learn so much from this page.
Ubuntu Netbook Remix from flashdrive gives a guide on installing a persistent flash drive install of Ubuntu 8.10.
Live USB Pendrive Persistent install page gives you the methods to do just that.
Aspire One User is a forum where you could interact with various users of the Acer Aspire One. It’s great reading the threads here because you have a better idea of what to do when you’re considering to install Ubuntu [...]
Full story: Clair
December 27, 2008 at 9:00 am ·
is my new Acer Aspire One.
Sadly they ran out of units with Linpus so I got the Windows XP version. And they ran out of the free DVD drive too. In any case, I was wondering if I could install Ubuntu Netbook Remix but the download took forever to finish. I had to leave my other laptop downloading the .img file the entire night. Another problem I have is that the .img file is 1GB and the flash drive I have here has less than that in terms of free space. I need to go out and see if I could buy one with a bigger capacity.
I also tried looking at installing Ubuntu within Windows because that’s an option. The problem with that is it will download the files from the internet too. If that’s the case I’d rather see first if I [...]
Full story: Clair
December 27, 2008 at 9:00 am ·
is my new Acer Aspire One.
Sadly they ran out of units with Linpus so I got the Windows XP version. And they ran out of the free DVD drive too. In any case, I was wondering if I could install Ubuntu Netbook Remix but the download took forever to finish. I had to leave my other laptop downloading the .img file the entire night. Another problem I have is that the .img file is 1GB and the flash drive I have here has less than that in terms of free space. I need to go out and see if I could buy one with a bigger capacity.
I also tried looking at installing Ubuntu within Windows because that’s an option. The problem with that is it will download the files from the internet too. If that’s the case I’d rather see first if I [...]
Full story: Clair
December 27, 2008 at 9:00 am ·
This wiki page was my starting point: Aspire One. It had details on tweaks you might also need to do. The Ubuntu Netbook Remix image is also mentioned on that guide. x
There are other pages which helped me too:
Installation from USB disk - This page showed me how I could turn my USB stick into a bootable Ubuntu installer. From using UNetbootbin to liveusb to the manual approach, you could learn so much from this page.
Ubuntu Netbook Remix from flashdrive gives a guide on installing a persistent flash drive install of Ubuntu 8.10.
Live USB Pendrive Persistent install page gives you the methods to do just that.
Aspire One User is a forum where you could interact with various users of the Acer Aspire One. It’s great reading the threads here because you have a better idea of what to do when you’re considering to install Ubuntu [...]
Full story: Clair
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