As always I’ve been waiting with curiosity the new Ubuntu 10.10 release which this year was auspiciously launched on 10.10.10. I had also heard some rumors about the new netbook “Unity” interface so I’ve decided to give it a try. I own since a few years a Acer Aspire One which despite the very slow SSD drive I still use for bedtime book reading, watching some internet recorded tv shows (mainly envoyee special) and morning news reading....
I’ve also migrated my Acer Aspire One to the new Karmic Koala easy as before using the recommended installation mechanism. One of the things I missed was the SSD specific configuration. This netbook I am using has a very slow SSD drive and I’ve experienced some slowdowns due to the time spent reading and writing the disk. I also wanted to reduce the SSD wear. Here are some steps I have took:...
This is a small experiment to use my cycling gps device with the navit application on my Acer Aspire One as a car navigation system. The system was composed of the following elements: GPS device Acer Aspire one running Ubuntu linux gpsd navit Navit GPS Required software Step 1. Install all packages required to build navit from ubuntu repositories: apt-get install build-essential pkg-config automake libglib2.0-dev libtool libxmu-dev libfribidi-dev gettext zlib1g-dev cvs gpsd gpsd-clients libgps-dev libdbus-glib-1-dev libgtk2....
I have decided to call my Acer Aspire One “the little one” or “little” first because it’s really little and second because I was reading Orson Scott’s Ender – Speaker of the dead and as “the little ones” from it’s book this netbook has been strange at first to me. I have never had a laptop with less than 1600x… or it’s wide equivalent resolution yet this laptops screen is bright and I could use it even on the beach under an umbrella....
So here are a few things which bother me a bit to this new toy: long shutdown time (even if the boot is very fast) large power cable (it’s absolutely huge compared to the laptop itself) long charging time Yet I am still happy with it, check the difference:
Someone will laugh and make fun greatly of me because of that but the truth is that in a moment of panic caused by the thought of one week without a computer I bought an Acer Aspire One the SSD version. Even if it has a very small screen it’s quite sharp and I loved this gadget right away. It comes with Linpus linux installed. Getting the prompt Just press Alt + F2 and then xterm....