Netbook for Regular Person

[Craig White]

On Thu, 2009-05-21 at 20:26 -0700, Eric Cope wrote:
> what about out of the box functionality? The user has no idea what a
> terminal is, let alone a compile script. She uses it to browse the
> web, check email, look at pics and videos of grandkids, etc. How does
> the wireless work?
> 
> On Thu, May 21, 2009 at 3:46 PM, Craig White <craigwhite at azapple.com>
> wrote:
>         
>         On Thu, 2009-05-21 at 14:29 -0700, Eric Cope wrote:
>         > Hello all,
>         > I have a friend who's mom wants a netbook, probably because
>         its small
>         > and cute. He asked my recommendation, but I have no
>         experience. Does
>         > anyone on the list have experience supporting people who
>         know next to
>         > nothing using a netbook, preferably Linux version?
>         > Thanks,
>         
>         ----
>         I have an Acer Aspire One which I bought with 160 Gb HD and
>         had Windows
>         XP on it. I used a USB flash drive to shrink the WinXP
>         partition down to
>         32 Gb and for the most part, used the rest of the hard drive
>         and
>         installed Fedora on it. You can use the 'live' version on a
>         USB key
>         disk...not sure why someone would do that unless just trying
>         it out.
>         
>         I also found it necessary to give it a larger virtual screen
>         because the
>         1024x600 just seemed too small to me so I'm running it at
>         1280x1024.
>         Pretty much everything works.
>         
>         https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Acer_Aspire_One
>         
>         and the generic page with links for most of the popular
>         distributions is
>         at...
>         
>         http://aspireone.wikia.com/wiki/Main_Page
>         
----
I guess I don't understand the premise of the question.

I know that Acer Aspire One SSHD models all have 'linpus' which is a
derived version of Fedora installed which is customized for the netbook
experience. Obviously I want more features than the simplified version
of linpus.

If the version of Linux you are using doesn't make most of those things
relatively easy, I'd tell you to change your version of Linux.

Craig


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