Re: [SLUG] Ubuntu friendly 12' netbook

2009-06-08 Thread Dean Hamstead
I would certainly not consider running gentoo or freebsd and rebuilding world. However my aspire one serves as a very chep, v small, v quiet and low power dhcp/dns/monitoring server. Add one usb2ps2 converter, and one connection to a kvm or an ssh connection, and its crapped keyboard is no lo

Re: [SLUG] Ubuntu friendly 12' netbook

2009-06-08 Thread Ken Foskey
On Tue, 2009-06-09 at 12:10 +1000, Dean Hamstead wrote: > I have a ~$1000 acer laptop and an acer aspire one. > > The former is utter garbage, the later is really nice. Brother has an aspire running Linux for wife.Works well from what I can see. It is not exactly stressed though, would not

Re: [SLUG] Ubuntu friendly 12' netbook

2009-06-08 Thread Dean Hamstead
I have a ~$1000 acer laptop and an acer aspire one. The former is utter garbage, the later is really nice. I suspect this aspire one goodness, rests mainly on an intel developed reference board which has had minimal customization. The cheapy one has all sorts of strange quirks. Dean Adrian C

Re: [SLUG] Ubuntu friendly 12' netbook

2009-06-08 Thread Adrian Chadd
My experience with the acer aspire one running XP has been one of pleasant happiness. I'm not a normal user though; I install very little extra software on my "user" machines. Now to get Linux/Xen and FreeBSD working on it.. Adrian On Tue, Jun 09, 2009, Kyle wrote: > My only one experience wi

Re: [SLUG] Ubuntu friendly 12' netbook

2009-06-08 Thread Kyle
My only one experience with an Acer laptop has left me with the impression; I will never buy another Acer laptop. I can't quantify it, but it has effectively been slow since the day it was bought. Granted it runs MS, but it was always slow.

Re: [SLUG] Ubuntu friendly 12' netbook

2009-06-08 Thread Voytek Eymont
On Mon, June 8, 2009 4:34 pm, b...@bensand.com wrote: > Considering the Dell mini 12 and the Samsung NC20, happy to hear > alternatives. From what I've read, neither seems perfect. The Samsung seems > to be using via/chrome/etc. stuff that I've had trouble with in the past, > but maybe it's finall

[SLUG] TUZ

2009-06-08 Thread Mada R Perdhana
Over 2009 lots of changes going on in Linux world. Linus Torvald has announced the latest 2.6.29 kernel that supports Btrfs file system. Btrfs made by Chirs Mason is planned akan replace Ext filesystems. Tuz logo will replace the Tux the Penguin is a contribution from the Linuz towards saving