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A few weeks ago I became the proud owner of an Acer Aspire One Linux edition (reviewed here). Out of the box, this little wonder comes with the relatively unknown Linux distribution Linpus Linux Lite, which has been customized somewhat by Acer to make the most of the hardware in the Aspire One. The screenshot above and many more pictures of Acer’s version of Linpus are available at Golem.de, or you can find captures of the vanilla Linpus Lite 9.4 here.
The installation is indeed very ‘Lite’, and brings up the desktop from suspend in less than 10 seconds, or from cold boot in around 20 seconds. Part of the reason for these amazing startup times is that Linpus doesn’t attempt to start up a fully blown integrated desktop environment like Gnome or KDE, and is in fact based on XFCE, including the XFCE’s Terminal and Thunar Filemanager.
A big selling point for Linpus is it’s support for Asian languages out of the box, and the Acer version is no exception: I was able to type Thai characters with the default setup, and there are additional smart input managers for Korean, Japanese and both Simplified Chinese and Traditional Chinese.
Under the hood, Linpus is actually based on Fedora Core 8, which betrays its age a little since Fedora itself left that release behind some time ago. That does, however, mean that with a little digging it’s possible to turn on the more advanced features we are used to seeing on a desktop class machine. Pressing ALT+F2 brings up a useful launch prompt, from which you can start the XFCE preference manager that Linpus doesn’t reveal by default — the so-called “Advanced Mode Hack. From here, all of XFCE’s options can be customized, including turning on the right-click desktop menu. Having done that, all of Fedora Core’s installed applications can be found inside this desktop menu, including the Fedora Package Manager.
In theory, the sky would be the limit here. Unfortunately it’s not entirely safe to add a bunch of Fedora 8 package repositories and let fly, since the patched Linpus packages are sometimes lagging behind the Fedora 8 versions. As I mentioned in my Aspire One review, if you accidentally update to a Fedora GTK+, then Linpus XFCE breaks. Even so, yum is your friend: With appropriate care, and judicious force installing of Fedora packages that might otherwise try to make unnecessary updates to Linpus, it’s not terribly difficult to add any application you might be missing. By now, I’ve updated to Firefox 3 and Open Office 2.4, and replaced the Acer media player with VLC, as well as added all the compiler tools so that I can compile things from source if necessary. Despite all that, the machine is still running as smoothly, if not smoother, than when I first took it out of the box.
Due to the very limited screen real estate of the Aspire One (1024×600 pixels) specifically, and netbooks in general, the Linpus desktop itself serves double duty as an application launcher. That is, once you’ve logged in, the desktop contains icons for the most commonly used (in Linpus’ opinion!) applications. This is perfect for casual users who just want to work on some office documents, or browse web and send some emails. Acer ships with an attractive Linpus desktop theme, splitting the screen into four zones (Connect, Fun, Work and Files), each with three launch icons and an arrow to ‘drill down’ into a subscreen dedicated to that zone that’s capable of showing up to another 9 icons (plus the original 3 from the main screen).
Another nice touch is the combined filesystem and internet search box included right on the desktop. The integration isn’t all it could be though, since the internet search merely launches Firefox to actually run the search. None-the-less, it’s quite nice to have it at your fingertips.
Acer ships a slightly out of date 2.6.25 kernel with the Aspire One, but they are sharing their patches, so there is no reason to avoid patching the Acer sources up to 2.6.26.5 and recompiling if you need newer kernel features such as reliable TrueCrypt support.
In the end, Linpus is a slightly outdated rpm distribution, and under any other circumstances I would certainly replace it with a modern debian distro myself. But, despite the fact that it is tuned for casual users, and that I’m not at all fond of rpms, I’m still happily using it 3 weeks later. Why haven’t I swapped it out for Ubuntu yet, you ask? Mostly because it is exceptionally well integrated with the Aspire One hardware. I can kill the wifi connection with a dedicated button and get feedback from the associated LED; the aufs overlay filesystem makes excellent use of the SD memory card slots; the webcam, soundcard and microphone work flawlessly for Skype calls; and not forgetting the fantastic 10 second wake-from-suspend. Linpus certainly isn’t a distribution I’d be eager to install on my own initiative, but there’s no doubt that with some love and attention from a netbook vendor, it can be an excellent operating system for making the most out of low-end hardware.
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“Pressing F2 brings up a useful launch prompt”
Isn’t it alt+f2, like most Linux distributions?
You also forgot to mention that there is no user account set up by default, or root password for that matter. In the store I was somewhat horrified when I opened up xterm and hit su only to find myself instantly greeted with a:
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@L: yes, typo on my part — ALT+F2 it is.
@Sean: Oh, you’re right! Thanks. What you say is mostly true, but it was the first thing I fixed when I had the same shock once I got the machine home, so I forgot the wacky defaults! You are logged in as a regular user without root privileges by default (with the uninspiring user name ‘user’), and there is no root password! Adding ‘user’ to the sudoers file and then running ’sudo passwd’ fixes those problems. I’m still trying to figure out how to get it to prompt for a login password at bootup though :(
Fixed Typo. (ALT+F2)
Interesting that you chose to type in Thai. I rarely meet anyone who finds that a priority.
Nice article.. Any experience with installing a different distribution yet?
can the aspire one play .avi, divx, mp4 files out of the box? or do i need to install codecs ?
“You are logged in as a regular user without root privileges by default (with the uninspiring user name ‘user’), and there is no root password!”
Might there be differently configured Ace Aspire Ones? At least the one I bought to my wife forced an initial setup before first complete boot, including root password.
Another possibility is that some too curious staff at some shops have playing around with it. I don’t know the answer beside that I didn’t encounter this dangers.
My own plan though is to install the distro I usually use: Arch.
How did you enable videocalls in skype? Thats the only thing im missing on my aa1 (linuxversion)
If you get an AAO then ensure you make a restore disc because there have been reports that the restore disc supplied with the Linux AAO is faulty, including mine.
Although I have found some people like Linpus Lite I abhorred it, so I installed Fedora 9 on it. Unfortunately though the AAO died a couple of days ago so now it has to be fixed. I consider this quite bad as it is the first bit of equipment ever that I have bought that has never lasted a month. Actually it is the first bit that has never lasted a year!!
@Pavs: Much obliged :)
@Daeng Bo: I bought my AA1 in Bangkok, so it has Thai glyphs on the keys, and since I plan to go back for a few months next year, I’m learning to read and speak Thai. I haven’t seen another distro that puts the option to type in Thai right in front of me until now, so I amused myself for a few minutes in Linpus :)
@Yosh: Nope, I’m planning on sticking with Linpus until a debian based distro has 20 second boot times, and support for all the AA1 hardware.
@JM: Sadly, no. Many of my videos are encoded as divx or H264 in avi or mov containers respectively. Installing VLC is reasonably straight forward though.
@KimTjik: Now that you mention it, the Acer store staff booted the machine and went through the setup for me to show that everything was working before they let me leave with it. I guess they hared through the setup screen and set an empty root password that I couldn’t forget?!?
@Nils: Actually, I’ve only made video calls with Yahoo so far, I just assumed that Skype would work too. It would suck if they don’t :(
@Andy: Good advice. Buy a 2GB usb stick with the AA1, and make that your prerogative before you tinker with anything else!
With an 8 GB drive, how much space is left after the OS is installed?
How big is the footprint of Linpus and the Asian languages?
Looks like a fun laptop to have.
@B: The Acer flavour of Linpus takes up a little over 3GiB, plus another 1GiB for the swap partition (I’ll talk about how to turn that off in a future post). With rounding errors from GiB to GB, and file system overhead, that leaves around 3.5GiB for user files. But there are two SDHD slots which are used very cleverly… see my recent review of the AAO on this website for details :)
I recently bought an AA1 as well and I think it was one of the best purchases I ever made. I bought a 6 cell, 1 GB RAM Linux version (very limited stock, I took the last one they had) for $450 dollars…The overpriced battery is not the best deal but it allows me to have 6+ hours of battery life which to me is a killer feature.
But the Linux OS is disappointing since it makes something like changing the background image amazingly difficult (compared to real distros). I guess I was spoiled by Ubuntu. Nonetheless the 20 second boot time among other things is preventing me from moving on. Hopefully onelinux will allow me to make the switch in the coming weeks.
I installed Ubuntu on this thing no problem. I have the 120gig HD version which boots even faster with Linpus (around 15secs). With some tweaks to Ubuntu I could get it to boot almost as fast and the time from suspend to desktop is around the same. The Ubuntu Wiki has a good article on getting all the hardware to work (including kill-switch and LEDs).. Sound works good, too.. except for the integrated mic (with default alsa drivers you have to chose between working mic or working sound after suspend).
Oh.. and that crap you read about a too loud fan in reviews is bogus. It is a bug in the Bios and since you are using Linux it is easy to have a script running in background that adjusts fan-speed to cpu-temp. In real-life usage the fan usually stay completely off for almost an hour until turns back on to cool down the Atom-CPU. The temp never goes higher than 70C.
All in all a great deal you get, for that little money. I use this as a complete notebook replacement.
Hey!
How straightforward is installing VLC?
since I read linpus is based on fedora core 8 I tried this:
$> su -
#> rpm -ivh http://rpm.livna.org/livna-release-8.rpm
#> yum install vlc
didn’t work though, it gave me these errors:
Error: Missing Dependency: libpulse.so.0(PULSE_0) is needed by package vlc
Error: Missing Dependency: libopendaap.so.0 is needed by package vlc-core
Error: Missing Dependency: libdvdnav.so.4 is needed by package vlc-core
I don’t know much about installing stuff on linux so does anyone know what to do with this?
I wish I had kept better notes, wvv. I had to track down at least 1 RPM install package and install them.
First go to sites like http://rpm.pbone.net & RPMfind.net and look for versions of the missing files for the i386 version of Fedora 8. Download them and install them by opening a terminal (like xterm) in the download directory, changing to root user account with the comand ’su’ (without the ’s) and installing the RPMs.
# rpm -Uvh libdvdnav-4.1.2-2.fc8.i386.rpm
I believe these were the three missing RPMs.
http://rpm.pbone.net/index.php3?stat=26&dist=54&size=52046&name=libopendaap-0.4.0-4.fc8.i386.rpm
http://rpm.pbone.net/index.php3?stat=26&dist=54&size=137077&name=pulseaudio-libs-0.9.8-5.fc8.i386.rpm
http://rpm.pbone.net/index.php3/stat/4/idpl/8866902/com/libdvdnav-4.1.2-2.fc8.i386.rpm.html
If you have them downloaded in the same directory you can install them with the command:
rpm -Uvh *.rpm
Then try installing vlc with pirut (the Package Manager).
I have to say, I’ve had more dependency hell in a few days of having the Acer Aspire One than with the last few years of Debian/Ubuntu/Sidux use, but I’ve finally beat it into to reasonable shape. I’ll be happy with it until OneLinux/Ubuntu Netbook/Mandriva Whatever work out the wrinkles with the One’s hardware.
Goran, if you want to change the background have a look at this thread and install the referenced RPM.
http://www.aspireoneuser.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=39&t=1612
Most of the dependency problems, like breaking GTK, can actually be resolved, i found solutions here: http://macles.blogspot.com/2008/08/dependency-problems-on-acer-aspire-one.html
Also two minor corrections. Linpus is 9.6, as can be seen when you repeatedly press TAB to get into the GRUB menu. And the kernel is 2.6.23, otherwise TrueCrypt wouldn’t be complaining.
thanks praxis!
but I’m not there yet..
after
rpm -Uvh *.rpm
I got
warning: libdvdnav-4.1.2-2.fc8.i386.rpm: Header V3 DSA signature: NOKEY, key ID 6df2196f
error: Failed dependencies:
libdvdread.so.3 is needed by libdvdnav-4.1.2-2.fc8.i386
what to do next? sorry for filling this page with my VLC linpus problems.. I’m kind of new to installing stuff on linux systems.
A solution for VLC is also available at #5 in the post i linked in the previous post.
how do oyu add a desktop pager/switcher to the panel?
Okay i am sorry if this sounds stupid to most of you…keep in mind i very new to the linux world. I have two questions the first one being can you use itunes on linux the second one being if you were to log into abc.com or fox.com or whatever can you watch the tv shows on the acer like you can on any of the windows pc?
I’ve one of these and want to know whether it would be possible to install SpiderOak backup software (which has multi-platform support including Linux).
SpiderOak offer Ubuntu and Debian versions of Linux. Is there any likelihood Linpus will run one of these?
(I tried SpiderOak support but they suggested I tried it myself; it’s not officially supported on other platforms; and before trying I’d like to know my chances!).
Many thanks for any ideas
Pete
You say the AA1 runs flawlessy for SKYPE….yet I cant seem to get this thing installed and running appropriately…not only am I new to AA1/Linux but to computer operations/functions as well. I m a traveling English teacher abroad for 8 years now and want to update myself with technology for staying touch back home as i am never sure when i will get back.
Can you instruct–or direct me…for installing skype on the AOA110 (the SSD, smaller battery and memory one)?
Cheers!
Skype works for me. With video.
I followed the instructions in the “top 10 tweaks” article on the very useful aspireoneuser.com website.
http://www.aspireoneuser.com/2008/09/05/ten-tweaks-for-a-new-acer-aspire-one/
Pete
I also (importantly) found that my AA1’s (120GB models) were both affected by the 193 Load_Cycle_Count bug when I installed Ubuntu 8.0.4-1. Basically it may well kill your hard disk within a year…. See http://ubuntudemon.wordpress.com/2007/10/30/ubuntu-is-not-causing-aggressive-power-management/ for example. There are workarounds out there also.
Great review and notes. Cheers!
How to install windows XP and keep Linpus installed (in other words “Dual Boot”)?
Thanks
With this version of Linux, how can programs be added and removed? (I am new to Linux)
Also, must webmail be used, or can I use an email program?
Thanks
The acer messenger keeps crashing and re-starting. I have already tried to remove all logins and again.
Skype works perfectly well.
Any solutions?
i have just bought an aspire one…and i cannot get it to connect via wireless plz help x
I have the Windows version of AA1. Is it possible to get the Acer version of Linpus Lite and install it alongside Windows on the HD? If so, how?
Thanks,
Hans-Göran
I am a linux newcomer. Just bought an EEEPC 701 but what shocked me is that the linux is in chinese. Is there any way to change it to English version without reinstallation just like we change language in mobile phones ? Thanks
I am thinking of purchasing the AA1 120GB model - the reason behind this is that I am going to Cuba in January and rather drag my 4 year old heavy laptop with me I was thinking of taking one of these babies. My passion is photography and I take the laptop with me so I can review the pictures that I have taken - will the AA1 be up to the job? Is the photo browser included with Linux Lite any good? I would be grateful for any advice.
Tony
You can download Google’s ‘Picasa’. This works very well and handles RAW photo’s.
I have not worked out how to put and Icon on the desktop yet so I run Picasa from the ‘Run’ command (just type in Picasa)
Hope this helps
Paul
P.S. If anyone knows how to put an Icon on the desk top to run a program please let me know.
Many thanks Paul,
I took the plunge and ordered the AA1 120 GB Linux model yesterday - I have also heard that Gimp is also a good photo programme - I will have a play when it arrives and let you know how I get on!
Hi my fiance bought me the acer aspire one linux lite two months ago and i would like to change the desktop and have a nice photo display but i not yet figure how to do that or find any information anywhere on the internet
i be glad if you can help me out.
when i download vlc and try to install it, i dont have a clue how to install it, it just goes cannot add patch or it turns to something like winrar but obvs its not, and then i dont no how to install that from there.
The “Lite” part of the title means that it’s a live CD as a preview. You can’t really add anything to it, as far as I can tell.
I have opened my aspire and can’t seem to get my mouse pad to work. Is there something I am doing wrong?
I have opened my aspire and can’t seem to get my mouse pad to work. Is there something I am doing wrong?I can move the mouse but i can’t right click on anything.
Well I have managed to install Picasa - looks good so far. Anyone know how to add a Picasa icon to the desktop? I also have to say how impressed I am with it - connected to the internet in seconds, Hotmail & Mac Mail in minutes - looks like it’s going to be a useful piece of kit.
How do you download / transfer music files to this system. I have tried to load direct from cd using external drive also from sd card…no luck. wont recognise file type.
Thanks Praxis, really useful what you wrote. Now I can see .avi with VLC.
cheers
I was given an AA1 last Sunday, as an early Christmas present.
A nice little gadget, I thought, I’m going away for a few days, so something to take with me, to play with.
It’s got this Linux thing on it - I’ve heard of Linux, but never had anything to do with it before.
I’m not a computer Geek, I’m a semi-retired Engineer, of average intelligence, and I’ve had PC’s for about 30 years, so I should be able to handle this OK.
I have a small program, which, when the audio output of a radio is plugged into the microphone socket, will convert the audio into RTTY [Radio Teletype]
At the moment it’s on my laptop, running on WinXP, but I’ve read that it will run on Linux, with the assistance of Wine, [I do lot's of things with the assistance of a bottle or two myself!]
Firstly, find Wine on the Internet - there’s about a dozen for some strange reason, and after quite a bit of rummaging around, discover through your article, that what I’m running isn’t Linux at all, it’s called Linpus - quite confusing, because not only is it Linpus, it’s Fedora!
So find Linux that mentions Fedora in it’s name, and download it - my goodness this little Acer is very quick, it downloads just as soon as I press the button.
It’s put it in downloads, so go there and am faced with lots of files with totally meaningless titles - and no instructions what to do next!
Go back to article, mention of yum - lets get this right, my program will run, [when I eventually modify the OS on here, but to modify it, I need Wine, and to install Wine I need something else?
I feel too lazy to get up off this settee and get an anorak to wear, I think when the shops open again, I’ll take this down to my local PC emporium, stick it on the counter, and ask if they will remove the operating system and replace it with WinXP - at least when I give it a program, it installs it, and runs.
It doesn’t tell me to go off and get something to act as an interface, oh, and by the way, you need something else to help you install the interface.
Linux? You gotta be joking, in fact, I suspect that it was written as a joke, nobody in their right mind….
just got a acer aspire one for christmas as a gift . it is currently on the linux? i want to up date it to windows can you?? i really cant get used to the linux! also the messenger will not work how do u set it up? when u try to download music or files it wont allow you to open them? its really puzzeling me i like the laptop but really can not get used to the linux? help please?
Not so much a comment, just a quick question.
One of the things I like to do on my way into work is log on and play on the internet thru my Tmobile cell phone. I’ve done it before on a pocket pc, but to be honest it’s kinda tuff to see stuff on a 3 1/2 inch screen. So when I found out about netbooks, I checked them out.
There were 2 stumbling blocks.
1st was the price. Not that I am a cheap skate, but for casual net cruising while on a bus or on breaks at work I didn’t want to spend too much money. Besides, since the real world these days has more despirate people out there I didn’t want anything flashy to attract attention to me. So the 1st netbooks I saw seemed kinda steep price wise.
At that end I found what I thought was a bargain. A mips powered machine running Linux V2.4 So after getting my bargain I Played with it and looked for a Linux Bluetooth driver so I could link via BT to my cell phone and get on to the net.
The ‘Bargain’ was called The Alpha 400 made by an outfit called ‘Bestlink’ Not a bad little machine. I can go on the net via wifi, but I can’t use it anywhere else unless there’s wifi availible.
that is because the kernal is V2.4 and because of that I couldn’t find a bluetooth program to load into the A400.
So I went looking for a way to upgrade the kernal, but with out success. Then I started looking for other machines. Ialso decided to go look for a machine with either Windows XP or Vista since you can ad a BT adapter easily.
Now I checked the homepage for the makers of Linpus lite to see if it’s comatible with bluetooth. According to the Linpus people it is, but I want to make sure that is is.
So if I got a AA1 and plugged a BT dongle in it, will it work?
Do I need a special driver for it? If I do, what is it and where do I get from?
Hope you have a Happy and a healthy new year?
Thanx!
Rob
hey I was wondering where you bought your aspire 1 i really want to get one with Linux on it but don’t know where to get it.
PS. I live in Canada.
Kim,
I haven’t bought it yet,
try going to Geeks computers. They have both new and used ones.
you can also try Tiger Direct/ Compusa. They recently merged, but they also have a Canadian site…
Or you can just go to Yahoo, type in Acer Aspire One, then click on shop..
Hope you get a good bargin!
Rob
Hi,
I’ve just bought the same laptop as you but I’m having a little trouble even doing very basic functions! Can you help (these require pretty quick answers only) please?
1. How do you switch from the ‘newbie’ mode that it comes in originally to the mode where it’s more like Windows Desktop?
2. Apparently .exe files aren’t executable but I’m only more confused after reading the help documents on Thunar. Just how do you get .exe files to execute?
3. Codecs to play .avi files. This is partly related to number 2. too… is there a way to install things?
4. Last but not least… is a ‘bash box’ what you type in after you highlight an icon? If it isn’t, can you tell me how I can get this to type all those instructions?
Thanks very much for taking the time to read and I’d LOVE it if you could help me out by replying to my above questions!!! Thanks.
Dear John Simons,
I assume you’re not a Microsoft employee or fanboy just Astroturfing (look it up if you don’t know what it means), but a honest person.
You can try to run your program in your cell phone. It will not. You can also try to run it on a Mac. It will not either. You can also try to run it on a PDA (with Windows Mobile or CE). Again it will not. Finally you can try to run it on Vista. This time it may or may not work. Why should it run on Linux?
Installing random software from the Internet in Linux is not easy. That’s why you don’t need antivirus software running on it. If you want to install software, you have to do it the proper way.
Linux _distributions_ (Fedora, Linpus, Ubuntu) are collections of software prepared to run together. The software is divided in _packages_ that are stored in a _repository_. Your Linux distribution has tools to download such packages from said repository and install them, along with any needed library.
Unfortunately you need to unlock the Linpus advanced mode (a little googling will tell you how) before having access to the package manager in the Aspire One. Once you get to this point, it will be much easier to install Wine. Additionally, there are literally thousands of software packages available for almost anything, so there’s a good chance you can get a native Linux program that can replace your program.
Best regards.
I have the AA1 8GB Hard, 512MB RAM with Linpus Lite v1.0.9. E. I want to use this netbook on the road, and thus connect to internet via a broadband modem (a Huawei E220 3G HSPDA USB Modem). I kindly ask for assistance on installing this modem, and also setting the connection through the Management. I found the linux drivers on this url: http://oozie.fm.interia.pl/pro/huawei-e220/. But am a linux newbie and although i can struggle to set it up on a full blown Linux OS, i am stuck when trying to set up on this Linpus Lite. Your help will be greatly appreciated.
Clemo
Quick question….
I bought the Acer with the Linux os… and now as a student in the University have access to free Windows. How easy would it be to switch over to Windows XP?
Quick Answer,
Dont do it, changing over from linux to XP is a nightmare, I tried it and had to download all the drivers etc, though the web cam is difficult to operate after and the keyboard function keys wont work, as well as the memory expansion slot. I quickly swapped back to Linux.
Cheers
@Yosh
I recently installed Fedora 10 on my 150AB (1.5GB RAM). I downloaded the “live USB creator 3.2″, the fedora desktop .iso and slapped it together. It installed without a hitch, and booted into the correct resolution with no problem. Everything worked out of the box, bar the wireless and it’s LED. (Although the boot was around 2 minutes)
Gnome on the 150 is slightly slow and takes up a lot of the screen, but it’s not un-usable. To fix the screen and make it seem like more spacious, I just changed the font size down to 7, which reduced the size of the gnome panel (and its text/icons) to a good size. To speed it up, I changed the menu pop-up delay to 10ms, making it run perfectly.
Next, I went to optimize it overall, so I looked around for a list of necessary/un-necessary services and disabled the ones that were slowing my boot-time and processing power.
To get the wireless working was a pain in the ass, but left me confused. The first time I installed fedora on it it was completely unresponsive, not even being detected. So I installed madwifi (for the Atheros wireless drivers) and restarted, this made it start detecting networks. I did need to change my wireless’s WEP key to a 128bit non-ASCII code, as nothing else seemed to work.
Strangely enough, when I ended up re-installing Fedora (because I buggered up the groups by chmod-ing the file system accidentally.) It worked out of the box. (Still no LED)
Overall, I ended up with a 19 second boot time, and a pretty quick system that can play EPSXE/zSNES at full speed. With any luck all issues should be sorted out by release 11.
:D
@headsNtails/T Dunc
Are you sure you downloaded the right drivers? All drivers are available at the Acer site (http://support.acer-euro.com/drivers/notebook/as_one_150.html).
The only problem I encountered while installing Windows, was acctually getting it onto a USB stick. (Make note that I used a pirated version that was stripped down)
That aside, everything worked for me once I installed all those drivers.
Few things. If you want an Icon and since you cant get one into the normal desktop. I made myself a little work around and put icons in the file menu. and then just leave that open
hi
i saw this today and want one. I am only using it as a portable for my scriptwriting (no, not those kinds of scripts..but drama etc….)
the programme i use is celtx
I have downloaded and used celtx on an ubuntu laptop…works fine…
do you reckon it will integrate ok with linus lite (linpus)..
thanks…
Gill
Hi, I recently purchased an Acer Aspire One Linux Linpus Lite v1.0.9.E. Although I’m new to this OS Ive managed to successfully load Skype However my next aim is to install a Bluetooth adapter.Would someone please post a step by step layman’s guide to achieving this. many thanks in advance.
I also wanna know if it’s possible to add a Bluetooth adapter to a A 1.
Just wondering
Rob
I’ve usm modem vodafone K3520 and my laptop OS Linpus Linux BenQ. How to
installed it so that connect internet ?
thanks,
agustinus R.
Hi,
I just bought an acer aspire one 1gb ram and I am quite happy with the simplicity of the interface. However I was wondering if there are some applications i can install and if so what would be the better website source to download them from and also should I install an antivirus? I tried to look at a video in streaming and it had a weird reaction… (a “fake” pop-up then frost)
Thanks in advance
ingrid
hi! it is possible to install yahoo messenger in linpus lite because the messenger on linpus lite doesn’t support video call…please if you know show me how to install on it..thanks a million
I am thinking of buying Acer Aspire One.
Do you think I can use the recovery discs which came with my Compaq, to reformat and install Window XP Home Edition?
how can i install chat room from yahoo messenger with linpus linux lite v.1.0.7.e?
are linux and linpus the same?
Hi all - I have managed to download and install VLC (well at least my machine is telling me that I have!) - the problem is that I cannot get it to run - in the terminal I type VLC and all I get is “Failed to execute child process “vlc” (no such file or directory)
Am I missing something?
Also, why can I not see the programmes I have downloaded in any sort of disk file structure? I have downloaded Picassa and although the programme works fine I cannot see it in any file list - how do I go about finding it?
Thanks in anticipation for any help that you maybe able to give me.
Tony
Is it possible also to change default user name “user” in whatever you want without create a new user and manteining the full standard Linpus distribution installed.
And it can be done easily.
This is a screenshot of my A110L
http://www.pclinux.eu/images/screen.png
enjoy it!