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@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
>