On Thu, 2010-04-08 at 15:47 +1200, Aidan Gauland wrote: > Steve Holdoway wrote: > > I've got an older Acer One, with just an 8GB SSD+SD. It works fine > > ( currently running the pre-release Ubuntu 10.10 happily ), although the > > SSD has been replaced once, and write performance does seem rather slow. > > Does anyone else have any experiences with or opinions of the Acer Aspire One? > I am now considering that one (as well as the Eee), because of the keyboard > and it seems to be more Debian-friendly; that is I don't have to use a > netbook-specific distro to alleviate hardware and driver woes. > > I really don't know why we need specific drivers for something as simple as > network chipsets. Weren't the OSI and TCP/IP layer models supposed to avoid > this problem? Or do these problems exist in only one layer? Or is it just a > delusion? > > Thanks, > Aidan > TBH the ubuntu network stuff is more about best use of a limited display area than different drivers. I can switch between full-blown gnome desktop and netbook on login.
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