Newby, a couple of questions

Got an aspire one for Christmas and I am delighted with it, but I have a few questions

One of the best things is the start up speed 15 seconds from boot, connected to the internet within 30 seconds. Downside is having to use firefox 2 instead of firefox3. I have not used Linux before, is an upgrade from Linuxlite liable to slow the speed of the system down, or is there a way of using firefox 3 on linuxlight? How difficult is the change of O.S for someone new to Linux?

I have the SSD hard drive, and have bought an 8Gb SD card to expand the acer to 16Gb in the left hand SD card slot. I have not been able to access this SD card , I only get a window asking me if I want expand the card if I take it out, so Linux knows its there.

Is there anything similar to My computer on windows where I can actually see what drives are attached to my aspire one?

Thanks in anticipation.

Neil

 

You can update to ff3 on the support site: http://www.acer.com/aspireone/support/f ... nnect.html

you can find this site by going into "Settings" (Desktop Bottom right ) , System (icon) look in Tab "Help"


On desktop choose group "Files", My FIles (icon) you'll get a file explorer,,, change the view settings to your liking

 

Thanks Woodland

Got firefox 3 despite the first site for acer I looked at saying Fire fiox 3 could not run on linpus!

It took a little while to relaise that despite having two seperate 8gb SD cards the system displays both cards as one drive.

 

Glad to be of help...

Despite all the critic Acer is getting; they do work on improving our experience..

That trick with the disks is rather neat and sophisticated... if your main disk is full Linpus will write the "overflow" to the 2nd disk all by itself (afaik)

realize that if you change to another distro (o.s.) you will loose this feature.

(other distros (o.s.) might figure out how this works but for now its a prob on the distros i checked and there are more probs..
for now im sticking with Linpus, except for the internal microphone all the hardware works, short boot time and its fast.

I expect that in time there will be other distros that might be as fast as Linpus and a little easier for beginners but atm it's not the case yet

 

The internal microphone works - just not with the webcam application!

 

i know daldred,

it just doesn't work for me (yet) in SKYPE were i really would like to be able to use it.

It will try to be (even) more precise in further remarks and statements,, but i was only trying to prevent a "Newby" (his words not mine) to start trying all sorts of distro's that for the time being will only give him a whole set of new "challenges" without a 100%
satisfactory experience...

if you found a distro that will do that plz plz let us know

 

[quote="woodland"it just doesn't work for me (yet) in SKYPE were i really would like to be able to use it.[/quote]

Is it working for you in other applications - even in the basic commandline 'arecord'?

I agree that distro hopping is not a good idea for someone new to Linux, particularly on 'challenging' hardware. I do reckon we'll have something fully working before too long - people seem to be ironing out most of the issues - but until it's actually in place, easily installable and tested, it's not going to make life any easier for the newbies!