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Hi I am successfully running kubutu on acer 4020 laptop I got month back ..... everything including wifi worked out of the box :-) limpus Linux is just marketing gimmick to bring laptop cost with OEM software ...more ever if u pop in limpus Linux CD you will find windows drivers !! ................I have never seen such crappy Linux disto as limpus there was just one minor issue during installation ....... installation cd wont just wont boot up when you try install ubuntu ...............to resolve this at boot prompt type ~ linux noapic Anupam Jain wrote: |On 9/24/05, Sudev Barar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | |>On 9/23/05, Sandip Bhattacharya <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: |> |>>I wonder how many folks here have read the fine print in the latest of Acer's |>>"Sub 40k" notebook ads. They bundle Linux on them, and mention at the bottom |>>in small print, something like this: |>> |>>"The linux that is preloaded is a free version and would have limited |>>functionality until another operating system is installed". |>> |>>Is this another way for these hardware vendors to appease Microsoft while |>>trying to sell budget notebooks bundled with Linux? |> |>I can not comment on intentions of other potential users but Limpus |>Linux that came preinstalled on this laptop was nothing to even try. |>Loading Ubuntu/FC3/FC4 fialed. Debian/FC2/CentOS/RHEL-WS works but |>barely as there seems to be somespecific hardware issue with |>read-writes. hdparm says DMA is enabled, dmesg says otherwise. And I |>am struggling for last four weeks and ruing my decision to purchase |>WiFi enabled note book. |>OTOH the other note book - Acer celeron works cool! | | | |A friend on mine is successfully running Ubuntu on an Acer notebook he |bought a couple of months ago. He very helpfully documented the |problems he faced and the solutions he discovered on his blog here - |http://ggupt.blogspot.com/ | |Hope it's helpful to all the people trying to install Ubuntu on Acer notebooks.. | |- AJ | |_______________________________________________ |ilugd mailinglist -- [email protected] |http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd |Archives at: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.user-groups.linux.delhi http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ | | - -- "Innovation is not absolutely necessary, but then neither is survival." - -- Andrew Papageorge -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFDcIPLVAO9KHA2KWcRAkTAAJ9pjqjhhIH+zuZE0vKHwuvk/6Sg5gCfbKfi 93lwY+1CZlNu+r2BZEx9vsI= =YmAq -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- DISCLAIMER: ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This e-mail contains confidential and/or privileged information. If you are not the intended recipient (or have received this e-mail in error) please notify the sender immediately and destroy this e-mail. Any unauthorized copying, disclosure, use or distribution of the material in this e-mail is strictly forbidden. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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