On 4 February 2011 21:22, Dianne Reuby <pramc...@yahoo.co.uk> wrote: > A friend has asked me to look at her husbands netbook, which is running > Linux. He bought it from Tesco two years ago, so I think it probably > *is* Ubuntu. > > His problems are mainly that it doesn't recognise USB devices when > they're plugged in, and it downloads updates but doesn't install them. > He wants to do more than email and web browsing, which is all he feels > he can do at the moment (it has shortcuts on the desktop for email and > firefox). > > If it's two years old, and he hasn't upgraded, will it be pre-Unity? As > I've never used a netbook, only Ubuntu on desktops and laptops, will I > be able to find my way around it? > > She thinks his cunning plan is to break it so he can buy a new one, but > I don't want to be the one that breaks it! :) > > At that age, and depending on the make, it might not be. The Acer Aspire One, for example, uses a Fedora based distribution called Linpus Lite. If it has a 'helper' desktop, there are still ways of starting a Gnome desktop on it. For that matter you can install an up to date version of Ubuntu on it using a pen drive. I think we need more information though.
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