AspireOne: a review
On Sunday, I purchased an Acer Aspire One - a 120Gb Linux machine in 'Sapphire Blue'. Ever since some of my friends started using Asus Eee machines, I'd been thinking about buying a 'netbook.'
Setting the Acer up was a no-brainer: you open it up, turn it on, it asks you your name, location, time and date, a root password and then you are booted into the rather Fisher-Price Linpus Linux OS, a Fedora-based distro designed for titchy little laptops. But I knew from the start I would want to switch to a grown-up distro, so on Monday, I spent most of the day faffing around with Ubuntu. First, downloading Ubuntu, then spending about four hours trying to get it to network boot, and a bit more time spent trying to create a bootable USB instance. I wish I still had the USB CD-ROM drive I used to own, as that would have made installing Ubuntu a breeze. At one point, I actually had four computers running simultaneously on my desk: my Mac, the Acer, a borrowed Windows laptop running LiveCD Ubuntu and another Windows box just there for good measure. The Ubuntu installation for netbooks needs to become a lot simpler. Here's my imaginary installation procedure: you download a small application that runs on Windows or Mac OS X. It guides you through the whole process - you simply plug an Ethernet cable between the target machine and the source machine, and it does everything else for you. I'm fairly nerdy, but I can't for the life of me figure out setting up DHCP and TFTP servers and fiddling around with DNS settings. Life's too short.
Eventually, I got Ubuntu running on the machine.
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