Your thinking is all wrong. Android is a great operating system, but it is definitely best at home on phones or other similarly starved devices. There are no benefits that I can see for running it on a netbook, laptop, or desktop because there are BETTER OPTIONS.
You have an acer aspire one. Thats great. So do I. One of the things I love about it is the 8 hour battery life. Yeah, mine has the 6 cell battery and the SSD drive. >From what I can tell from your post, you most likely got gipped into one that came with a microshaft OS installed. You are by NO MEANS restricted to this. You clearly understand the security benefits of running a linux OS. So why don't you? There are as many linux distributions out there as there are ideas about what a distro should include, and most of them will run on your aspire one! Android is a LINUX DISTRIBUTION. It is a highly customized distro, targeted at very small devices, particularly phones. At the opposite end of the spectrum is Red Hat Enterprise Linux, a very robust operating system for servers and workstations. Now we're not trying to shoehorn RHEL into a phone, so don't try to shove Android into a server... or anything else that it is not suited for. Take your netbook and find the operating system that is MOST SUITED to YOUR USE of THAT HARDWARE. One of the criteria I had when purchasing a netbook was that its purchase did NOT benefit microshaft (i.e. I am unwilling to buy their licenses), so I selected one that shipped with linux. The particular distro didn't matter to me since I am inclined to change things around anyways. Aspire one ships from the factory with a distribution called "linpus". Its cute, but not very practical (all it could do was skype and firefox). So I deleted it and installed Fedora 10 -- www.redhat.com/fedora . If for some unfathomable reason you want to keep microshaft installed on that machine, you can run F10 off a USB-disk -- http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FedoraLiveCD/USBHowTo -- there are a lot of details on that page, but the meat is that you just run the program called "liveusb-creator" and follow the prompts. Here's some general info on running Fedora on Aspire One: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Acer_Aspire_One I believe that if you do this, you will be much happier than you would be with android on it. On Fri, Jan 30, 2009 at 2:28 PM, al <[email protected]> wrote: > > Even before we have such things as "netbooks", "mobile devices", > "smartphones"... there was the "PDA" or personal digital assistant, > then there was the pda-phone and mobile phones. IMHO, these terms are > just marketing terms made up by the marketing departments of the > companies of these products. > > For instance, the present day pda-phone or mobile device phone is just > an outgrowth of the original pda "concept" where one keeps their > contacts, tasks and notes in this device, and then someone thought it > might be "neat" to combine this pda device with a cellphone device... > To me, a clear evidence of this is the Windows Mobile Phone, even > after going through a number of upgrades, it still cannot disguise > this legacy that the mobile phone portion was just a "add-on-thing" > and not a fully integrated part of the device. Where the phone > capability of the device seamlessly interacts with the other apps in > the device... > > However, I feel that android should not be limited by the platform it > runs on, whether this be a mobile device, a smartphone, a netbook, a > notebook or even a desktop PC... > > Not to veer too far from the topic at hand, my interest of having > android running on a netbook, actually stems from a more selfish > reason. I own an acer aspire one, and would like to have the option of > booting and running my netbook on android from a usb thumb drive, for > those occasions when I am connecting to a public wifi network, maybe > just to quickly check and send emails or I might need to check > something in the internet. Although, the security on android (being > linux-based) is not a 100% assurance from viruses and malwares, I > would still feel a little more at ease in these situations if I am > using android... > > In fact, there are some people who claim that they have been able to > run android on their respective netbooks, like the following link > "http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/02/android-installed-and-running-on- > an-eee-pc-in-a-matter-of-hours/<http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/02/android-installed-and-running-on-%0Aan-eee-pc-in-a-matter-of-hours/> > " > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Discuss" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-discuss?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
