Yesterday I splashed out on a new toy - the Acer Aspire One netbook, the Linpus
Lite version with 1GB ram, and a 120GB Hard Drive. It's a very nice little
machine and ideal for a first time user, but the OS is rather limited.
I've checked the Howto install Ubuntu on it at
keith wrote:
Yesterday I splashed out on a new toy - the Acer Aspire One netbook, the
Linpus Lite version with 1GB ram, and a 120GB Hard Drive. It's a very nice
little machine and ideal for a first time user, but the OS is rather limited.
I've checked the Howto install Ubuntu on it at
On Wed, Nov 5, 2008 at 9:50 AM, Rob Beard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I'm sure though someone else has actually tried it. I'm surprised
though that they didn't bundle in a restore CD/DVD, I mean an external
USB DVD writer is only about £30 nowadays.
I don't have an Acer, but I have an Asus
Andrew Oakley wrote:
I have a new PC which has Windows XP. I am already very familiar with
repartitioning/resizing and dual-booting so that I can have both XP and
Ubuntu on the same machine.
Is it possible to have the same one single Ubuntu partition bootable as
BOTH:
* Dual boot
AND
*
2008/11/5 Simos Xenitellis [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
Many people make the mistake to install the stock Ubuntu on the EEE.
The specialised version that Yishay mentions below is what people
should be installing instead.
Advanced users would stick to the stock Ubuntu on the EEE.
I have stock Ubuntu
Andrew Oakley wrote:
I have a new PC which has Windows XP. I am already very familiar with
repartitioning/resizing and dual-booting so that I can have both XP and
Ubuntu on the same machine.
snip
Hmm, although I've not tried booting an OS like this, in VMWare you can
actually mount real
I have a new PC which has Windows XP. I am already very familiar with
repartitioning/resizing and dual-booting so that I can have both XP and
Ubuntu on the same machine.
Is it possible to have the same one single Ubuntu partition bootable as
BOTH:
* Dual boot
AND
* A virtual machine within
Hi Rob, I contacted VIA, who told me they have written an upgrade to
their via cards that allows compiz to function. Unfortunately, I did
try to install it, but as I'm only a beginner I couldnt get it to work
but they assured me that it does work. I dont know of any body else who
has been
Many people make the mistake to install the stock Ubuntu on the EEE.
The specialised version that Yishay mentions below is what people
should be installing instead.
Advanced users would stick to the stock Ubuntu on the EEE.
Simos
On Wed, Nov 5, 2008 at 11:39 AM, Yishay Mor [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I have an eeePC running http://www.ubuntu-eee.com/
I imagine that should work for the Aspire as well.
I would do the standard procedure:
- burn a USB stick image
- boot live from USB
- if all goes well, install
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Yishay Mor, Researcher, London Knowledge Lab
Does anyone know if any of the open source programs like winff can decode
from Sony's .oma format.
To those who dont know Sony's sonicstage wraps mp3 files in .oma and then
puts it on the player.
I dont have access to a windows pc anymore so i would ideally like to carry
on using something
I am sorry if this has come up before, also about cross posting, but I
havent been able to find anything about it, so wanted to as about it.
I am a from the UK, and because of my laptop not being up to Ubuntu
specs, I have been looking into buying a laptop with ubuntu already
installed. I have
John wrote:
Hi Rob, I contacted VIA, who told me they have written an upgrade to
their via cards that allows compiz to function. Unfortunately, I did try
to install it, but as I'm only a beginner I couldnt get it to work but
they assured me that it does work. I dont know of any body else
John wrote:
I am sorry if this has come up before, also about cross posting, but I
havent been able to find anything about it, so wanted to as about it.
I am a from the UK, and because of my laptop not being up to Ubuntu
specs, I have been looking into buying a laptop with ubuntu already
Hi Everyone,
Just a quick note there is a meeting of some of the members of the south wales
LUG tonight (5th November) @ Central Bar in Cardiff from 7pm. If there is
anyone local please come along! :)
Regards,
Mathieu
_
Win
On Wed, Nov 5, 2008 at 4:20 PM, Rob Beard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
John wrote:
I am sorry if this has come up before, also about cross posting, but I
havent been able to find anything about it, so wanted to as about it.
I am a from the UK, and because of my laptop not being up to Ubuntu
Matt Jones wrote:
On Wed, Nov 5, 2008 at 4:20 PM, Rob Beard [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
John wrote:
I am sorry if this has come up before, also about cross posting,
but I
havent been able to find anything about it, so wanted to as about
it.
I am a from the UK, and because of my
John wrote (about importing a laptop from the USA):
What about getting somebody to buy it for me as a gift,
That's fine so long as you're happy using an American keyboard. Frankly
that'd drive me nuts; the at-symbol where double-quotes should be, hash
where the pound sign should be, double-quotes
On Wed, Nov 5, 2008 at 5:27 PM, John [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Matt Jones wrote:
On Wed, Nov 5, 2008 at 4:20 PM, Rob Beard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
John wrote:
I am sorry if this has come up before, also about cross posting, but I
havent been able to find anything about it, so wanted
snip
I already have the transformer for other stuff I have from the USA
Laptop's shouldn't need them. All of the power bricks I have ever seen are
110/240v, so you would just need to change the plug or buy the appropriate
mains lead
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ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com
On Wed, 2008-11-05 at 17:40 +, Matt Jones wrote:
I'm sure as Ubuntu gains in popularity it will start
to get
pre-installed on some new machines. The problem at
the moment is that
most
John wrote:
What about getting somebody to buy it for me as a gift, could I get
around import tax that way? I do have somebody who is willing to buy and
send one to me. I already have the transformer for other stuff I have
from the USA.
Well I haven't tried it myself, I believe it could
Andrew Oakley wrote:
John wrote (about importing a laptop from the USA):
What about getting somebody to buy it for me as a gift,
That's fine so long as you're happy using an American keyboard. Frankly
that'd drive me nuts; the at-symbol where double-quotes should be, hash
where the pound
Matt Jones wrote:
snip
I already have the transformer for other stuff I have from the USA
Laptop's shouldn't need them. All of the power bricks I have ever seen
are 110/240v, so you would just need to change the plug or buy the
appropriate mains lead
Actually that didn't occur to me!
Probably best to check just in case though :p
On Wed, Nov 5, 2008 at 6:26 PM, Rob Beard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Matt Jones wrote:
snip
I already have the transformer for other stuff I have from the USA
Laptop's shouldn't need them. All of the power bricks I have ever seen
are
Rob Beard wrote:
John wrote:
What about getting somebody to buy it for me as a gift, could I get
around import tax that way? I do have somebody who is willing to buy and
send one to me. I already have the transformer for other stuff I have
from the USA.
Well I
On Wed, Nov 5, 2008 at 1:19 PM, Alan Pope [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
2008/11/5 Simos Xenitellis [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
Many people make the mistake to install the stock Ubuntu on the EEE.
The specialised version that Yishay mentions below is what people
should be installing instead.
Advanced users
On Wed, 5 Nov 2008 09:40:19 + (GMT), keith [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
Yesterday I splashed out on a new toy - the Acer Aspire One netbook, the
Linpus Lite version with 1GB ram, and a 120GB Hard Drive. It's a very
nice
little machine and ideal for a first time user, but the OS is rather
I have for a while been trying to get TV out to work on a PC running
Mythbuntu. I spoke to Dave at the Linux Expo a couple of weeks ago, who
mentioned xrandr to me.
It turns out that it was already installed in Mythbuntu. I managed to
play with the settings in Mythbuntu and got the TV out to
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