On 6 Dec 2011, at 17:00, Terry Coles wrote:
> On Tuesday 06 Dec 2011 14:57:20 Adrian Howard wrote:
>> Pretty much worked out of the box :-) Huzzah!
>
> Great!.
>
>> Running pretty hot, and the trackpad scrolling isn't working - but that's
>> likely fixable with some tweakage.
>
> Which distro
On Tuesday 06 Dec 2011 14:57:20 Adrian Howard wrote:
> Pretty much worked out of the box :-) Huzzah!
Great!.
> Running pretty hot, and the trackpad scrolling isn't working - but that's
> likely fixable with some tweakage.
Which distro are you using? Some of the last kernel versions in the 2.6
On 3 Dec 2011, at 08:04, Terry Coles wrote:
> On Saturday 03 Dec 2011 06:16:22 Adrian Howard wrote:
>> For those who are curious I ordered an N1 last night (as pointed out by
>> Terry Coles) - we'll see how it shapes up when it gets here.
>
> Gulp ;-) I'll feel really guilty if anything goes wr
I'll back everything Terry said about Novatech. I visited the showroom
and tried a live disk on a desktop machine with no problem (except the
guy didn't known about 'live CD's!); bought the machine with extra HD
only to find no drive connector on main board. No problem as we went
back following
On Saturday 03 Dec 2011 08:12:31 Sean Gibbins wrote:
> Well, as far as I can see there's nothing, either morally or legally, to
> stop you from firing it up with live CD of some description to see
> what's what in terms of compatibility. As long as you are careful with
It would have to be a live U
On 03/12/11 06:16, Adrian Howard wrote:
For those who are curious I ordered an N1 last night (as pointed out by Terry
Coles) - we'll see how it shapes up when it gets here.
Well, as far as I can see there's nothing, either morally or legally, to
stop you from firing it up with live CD of some
On Saturday 03 Dec 2011 06:16:22 Adrian Howard wrote:
> For those who are curious I ordered an N1 last night (as pointed out by
> Terry Coles) - we'll see how it shapes up when it gets here.
Gulp ;-) I'll feel really guilty if anything goes wrong :-)
--
Terry Coles
On 2 Dec 2011, at 18:34, Walter Reed wrote:
> I have used the Acer Aspire One Netbook for a couple of years and really
> enjoy it (£150 with Linpus from Dabs)
>
> I noted that eBuyer had some 10" netbooks for about £190 a week ago.
>
> I have used Ubuntu -11.04 Netbook release and now have 11
I have used the Acer Aspire One Netbook for a couple of years and really enjoy
it (£150 with Linpus from Dabs)
I noted that eBuyer had some 10" netbooks for about £190 a week ago.
I have used Ubuntu -11.04 Netbook release and now have 11.10 working fine.
To me it seems such better value all r
On 1 Dec 2011, at 17:13, Terry Coles wrote:
[snip]
> Best of all, they sell nearly all of their computers OS free, so you won't
> have to pay for a crippled version of W7 and then throw it away, like most of
> the competition these days.
Thanks for all of that. Especially the OS free options -
On 1 Dec 2011, at 12:55, Mark Elkins wrote:
> Adrian
>
> Things have moved on and I would suggest that Ubuntu 10.04 (The LTS Version)
> will work out of the box in most cases. For example id of wireless cards etc
> that previous versions of Ubuntu sometimes struggled with.
Good to know - tha
On Wednesday 30 Nov 2011 22:15:44 Adrian Howard wrote:
> Does anybody have any recommendations for decent cheap netbooks that will
> happily run a standard Ubuntu distro? Hoping to avoid the hassle I had to
> go through to get the wifi working on the ASUS box a few years back when I
> didn't ask th
Adrian
Things have moved on and I would suggest that Ubuntu 10.04 (The LTS Version)
will work out of the box in most cases. For example id of wireless cards etc
that previous versions of Ubuntu sometimes struggled with.
Mark Elkins
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Hi folks,
My partner's ASUS Eee PC 1000HE netbook has been much abused and started
smoking the last time it was plugged in.
Does anybody have any recommendations for decent cheap netbooks that will
happily run a standard Ubuntu distro? Hoping to avoid the hassle I had to go
through to get the
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