I got myself one of those. It's got a very dated an unattractive looking interface, and firefox 2 beta. It runs a 2.4 kernel on a MIPSEL processor. You cant reach the TTY or a graphical shell, andthe pacakge management/upgrade system doesnt work. The OS is a lockdown so you cant install anything else, except xenium linux which is hacked to work on it. When I tried xenium, it made it permanently unbootable. Then the battery exploded/melted. After a lot of arguing, i got a refund, but only for the notebook itself, and not the 16 quid postage both ways.
2009/2/2 Dr James Stevens-Turner <ja...@btguk.org>: > John, > > Maplin are offering a laptop at £99.99 plus one at £129.99, with Linux on! > > James. > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: John > To: British Ubuntu Talk > Sent: Monday, February 02, 2009 1:56 PM > Subject: [ubuntu-uk] Buying a Acer Notebook..... > I finally found a relatively cheap notebook with what seems like good specs, > and was wondering what people though of it. The only thing it hasnt got is a > dvd/cd player. I cant even find one that has. If anybody knows of a notebook > that has one can they let me know? > > The specs are > > Acer Aspire One A150-Aw Netbook, Linpus Linux Lite version, 512MB DDR2 RAM, > 120GB HD > > with a > > Kingston Technology 1GB 667MHz DDR2 Non-ECC CL5 SODIMM > > Insert as an extra, the whole package costs £200. > > I wondered if that was a good deal, also I wondered how easy it would be to > install Ubuntu on it. As it doesnt have a dvd/cd player, would Ubuntu work > on it, and how would I install it? > > Thank you. > > John > > ________________________________ > > -- > ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk > https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/ > > -- > ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk > https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/ > > -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
