Netbook for Regular Person

[Eric Cope]

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
>
> Craig
>
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