Just want to have some sort of a survey on who's running what. 
What Linux distro are you using on your Aspire One?
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Xubuntu 8.04. Version 8.10 is a complete hell on my PC, so I think I stick to 8.04 on my A110 for a while.
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Fedora 10 Preview and Ubuntu 8.10. Two installs of each - one with GNOME, and one with most of GNOME stripped out and a modified LXDE desktop installed.
Currently testing a pre-Jaunty Jackalope-LXDE install on my desktop before installing it on my AA1. Got a bit of a sound problem - aplay and play both work from the commandline but espeak won't speak. Time to investigate
Currently testing a pre-Jaunty Jackalope-LXDE install on my desktop before installing it on my AA1. Got a bit of a sound problem - aplay and play both work from the commandline but espeak won't speak. Time to investigate
I've lost track. 
My main one is F10 rawhide. I have Intrepid on there, but haven't booted into it for days.
I keep CentOS on it as well, as its stability is nice, and actually, it runs quite well. Putting it on is a bit of a hassle because the 8169 driver included causes a core dump, but there are workarounds. (I have an article on the CentOS wiki about the problems and fixes.)
I tried, and had no real complaints, Mandriva 2009, SimplyMepis 8 beta, GOS and kuki. Elive also works reasonbly well.
On the 120 gig hard drive models, most distributions will install and compile properly.
Wireless, on all that I've tried will either work with 2.6.26 kernels (and with that kernel, you get the LED) and MadWifi drivers or the 2.6.27 kernels (sysctl options for LED are gone, but you can use the native ath5k driver.)
My main one is F10 rawhide. I have Intrepid on there, but haven't booted into it for days. I keep CentOS on it as well, as its stability is nice, and actually, it runs quite well. Putting it on is a bit of a hassle because the 8169 driver included causes a core dump, but there are workarounds. (I have an article on the CentOS wiki about the problems and fixes.)
I tried, and had no real complaints, Mandriva 2009, SimplyMepis 8 beta, GOS and kuki. Elive also works reasonbly well.
On the 120 gig hard drive models, most distributions will install and compile properly.
Wireless, on all that I've tried will either work with 2.6.26 kernels (and with that kernel, you get the LED) and MadWifi drivers or the 2.6.27 kernels (sysctl options for LED are gone, but you can use the native ath5k driver.)
RockDoctor said:
what's lxde? forgive my ignorance but is it much more lightweight but as functional as xfce? is it possible to force it in mandriva one? i don't know, but it might speed things up.
Mandriva 2009 Gnome all the way baby! All the hardware works! The only tweaks you need is to add a couple of lines to a conf file to get the right side SD slot to work, and to auto switch off/on the speaker when headphone is plugged in... that's it! Everything works! Even suspend/sleep mode. And everything is snappy, wven with compiz on. Only downside is the 1:20sec boot time. But I can live with that.
Linpus: it's an awful OS but it is fast to wake from sleep.
Issue313 said:
it's not awful really, requires much CLI tweaking though
try fedora 10 final release it's good as well as mandriva one 2009, but for me it's still linpus lite. hahaha
What are those minor quirks if you don´t mind me asking, and will they get sorted in the final release of 11.1? What´s the boot time, btw? I´ d love to try OpenSUSE on the AAO, but I´m a little hesitant to install it if too much tweaking is needed albeit I am using the pre-installed Linux Linpus myself at the moment.Ausweider said:
Linpus really does require a lot of unnecessary tweaking (amending main menus/toolbar through XML documents, adding fan control and SD scripts etc. to optimize the AAO--all something that should have been fixed by Acer/Linpus a long time ago by releasing an update to circumvent the aforementioned tweaks (which can be a nuisance in the long run).
I´ m happy about the system´s boot times although it is beginning to get slower and slower already after only a few weeks of usage which I don´t like and I´m also a little annoyed as I said earlier that it can be a bit tricky at times to do the most simplest things such as amending apps/icons in main menu and toolbar. Overall though, nothing so far I have tried beats the speed of Linpus. I like that I can cold boot my AAO and be on the web in less than a minute. If boot and response times weren´t important to me, and if I could be arsed to go through the hassle of switching from ext3 to ext2 file system, I´d be running UNR (Ubuntu Netbook Remix), but that´s another story some other time some other place.
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