So is Linpus still supported?

As it seems to be unable to update software and and remove programs keeps saying missing things. Have looked on here and there are no answers so I was was wondering which linux system has drivers for everything and woks straight out of the box.

 

Ubuntu.

 

Several of the Linux distributions work right out of the box with the Aspire One. I have to agree that Linpus is frustrating and poorly supported by Acer (which bollixed up Linpus). On my daughter's AOA110, original Aspire One 512 MB with SSD, I installed Ubuntu Netbook Remix (Karmic Koala 9.10 version) and everything works. My daughter likes it, but I have noticed that it's much more memory-hungry than Linpus. Under normal usage, I encounter momentary halts as it swaps data in and out of RAM. This eventually will lead me to tackling the ugly RAM upgrade problem.

The Clutter UI is cute but annoyingly slow. Regular Ubuntu 9.10 is a better choice in my book.

 

Fedora 12, Ubuntu 9.10, and many of their derivatives have worked very well for me and are easily updated.

 

As a noob still trying to understand this netbook, would I be installing ubuntu normally? ie. like any other desktop/laptop? or would I need some special sort of configuration?

 

I installed it (and use it) normally - no special configuration needed.

 

This is def worth a look. I was beginning to wonder if the best thing for these machines was the original Fedora/Linpus til I found this..
http://www.aspireoneuser.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=28&t=19096

 

Mandriva One also seems to work well. Haven't installed 2010.0, but I've run it from a live USB stick.

Bottom line: pick a well-supported regularly-updated distro with a strong community behind it, install, and enjoy!

 

Does Mandriva recognise the SD cards and allow hotplugging?

 

Last time I ran it, I needed to add pciehp_force=1 to the kernel line of my grub.conf (aka menu.lst) file to get it to recognize the SD cards.