On 02/02/2009 17:27, Alec Wright wrote: > 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. I presume you're on about the Maplin netbook rather than the Aspire One?
I did consider one of those Maplin netbooks when they were nearer to £150 but after reading that they didn't have an x86-compatible processor I decided against it. There's one thing about getting a netbook that is capable of running XP, at least you know it's pretty likely that Ubuntu will run on it without much messing around. Rob -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
