Netbook for Regular Person

[Eric Cope]

The OS that ships needs to be friendly enough to a web browsing, picture and
video viewing person, so minimal (preferably no) support is necessary on my
part.

Eric

On Thu, May 21, 2009 at 11:49 PM, Craig White <craigwhite at azapple.com>wrote:

> 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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