I've been running plain old Fedora 13 KDE on my Aspire One for a while .. I don't see the point of a netbook specific distribution or variation. An Aspire One is nothing special in the CPU/RAM/HD aspect and it handles 'standard' linux just fine.
Gary Baribault Courriel: [email protected] GPG Key: 0x685430d1 Signature: 9E4D 1B7C CB9F 9239 11D9 71C3 6C35 C6B7 6854 30D1 On 11/17/2010 12:35 PM, Patricia Campbell wrote: > Interesting, last I saw of MeeGo it was for phones. I suppose this > is convergence, though isn't everything these days. Can you give us > any info as to why MeeGo vs other netbook os? I've been using debian > on my Netbooks as it is most flexible for my needs but there are > several out there. > > Thanks > > On Wed, Nov 17, 2010 at 12:19 PM, Leslie S Satenstein > <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: > > Hi André. > > Many many thanks for your information. Wow. > > We are looking at implementing a software for the MeeGo netbook. > Security is crucial. > > >From what I understand, I am treading on new territory. MeeGo > is not a true linux system. It has some interesting security > management functionality. > > Thanks again for the two links. > > > *------------------ > > * > > Regards > > * > Leslie > * > > > --- On *Tue, 11/16/10, Andre Courchesne /<[email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]>>/* wrote: > > > From: Andre Courchesne <[email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]>> > Subject: Re: [MLUG] Reading/writing Netbook bios > To: "Montreal Linux Users Group" <[email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]>> > Date: Tuesday, November 16, 2010, 9:35 PM > > Hi, > > This is called the DMI/SMBIOS OEM tags. Usually this is done > with a motherboard/BIOS specific tool: > > http://ubcd4win.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=14952 > > LibSMBIOS might also be a good starting point: > https://fedorahosted.org/libsmbios/ > > --- > > Andre Courchesne - Consultant > > http://www.net-forces.com > > MSN: [email protected] > <http://mc/[email protected]> > > Skype: VoipForces > > > > L'information contenue dans le présent document est la > propriété de Andre Courchesne. Et est divulguée en toute > confidentialité. Cette information ne doit pas être utilisée, > divulguée à d'autres personnes ou reproduite sans le > consentement écrit explicite de Andre Courchesne. > > The information contained in this document is confidential and > property of Andre Courchesne. It shall not be used, disclosed > to others or reproduced without the express written consent of > Andre Courchesne. > > > > > > On 2010-11-16, at 5:18 PM, Leslie S Satenstein wrote: > > > Anyone know if there is some user space in the netbook > motherboard bios to permit writing a string of data. I don't > own the netbook, but I was hoping that I could put into the > motherboard bios, a string that, on boot up, would say "This > computer belongs to : xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx" or a hidden > string that I could read from a C or C++ program. > > > > My ASUS desktop motherboard supports "the easy set of > options (flash, boot, etc)". For the netbook, I was thinking > the mother board might have the same option. (I think it is an > Intel MB) As I stated, I would like to put in some > confidential encrypted data that I could retrieve with a > relatively simple C or C++ call. > > > > Ditto for the harddrive. > > > > > > ------------------ > > > > Regards > > > > > Leslie Satenstein > > > > > .ca > > <https://listes.koumbit.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mlug-listserv.mlug.ca> > > _______________________________________________ > mlug mailing list > [email protected] <http://mc/[email protected]> > > https://listes.koumbit.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mlug-listserv.mlug.ca > > > _______________________________________________ > mlug mailing list > [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> > https://listes.koumbit.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mlug-listserv.mlug.ca > > > > > -- > ___..___........__.......__ > ...|....|__/....|...|......|...|__| > ...|....|.....\...|...|__..|...|....| > > "You must be the change you wish to see in the world." Mohandas K Gandhi > > > _______________________________________________ > mlug mailing list > [email protected] > https://listes.koumbit.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mlug-listserv.mlug.ca
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