[K12OSN] Acer Aspire One Linpus Recovery DVD?

[Rob Owens]

Let me know if you find a link for the 9 cell battery.

-Rob

On Fri, Jan 23, 2009 at 05:26:26PM -0500, James P. Kinney III wrote:
> Fedora 10 works well on mine :-) I was digging on the aspire users site
> (link on another machine, grr.) and found a good reference to some
> details on making it work with good power management. 
> 
> Daughter is using it for college and loves it. Also found larger battery
> packs (9 cell as opposed to the lttle 3 cell it shipped with). The
> battery upgrade was around $65 but gave it nearly 9 hours of use.
> 
> Very nice machine. Rest of family pestering me for one. I _refuse_ to
> buy the one with winders on it.
> On Wed, 2009-01-21 at 17:52 -0500, Rob Owens wrote:
> > This page has a link to download the aspire one image.  http://eeepc.itrunsonlinux.com/the-news/249-acer-aspire-one-linpus-linux-lite-recovery-dvd-online
> > 
> > I've also read that Sidux works on the aspire one.  It supposedly supports all the hardware, whereas Ubuntu 8.10 doesn't support either sound or the webcam (I can't remember which).
> > 
> > -Rob
> > 
> > On Wed, Jan 21, 2009 at 11:47:10AM -0500, David Trask wrote:
> > > I know this is a little off topic, but I just bought an Acer Aspire One
> > > netbook and I also have another on the way from the Acer seed program 
> > > >http://www.acer.com/us/k12/k12_landing.htm
> > >   Unfortunately in order to get the higher end specs I had to get the
> > > windows version, but I'm planning to blow that away and install Ubuntu
> > > and/or the Linpus Linux version that comes with the Linux Aspire one's. 
> > > Does anyone out there have an Aspire One Linux version with a Recovery
> > > DVD?  I'd love to get a copy of it.  I realize I could download Linpus
> > > Lite, but I'm not sure if there are specific Acer mods that I might miss. 
> > > Let me know and we can arrange the method...either an ISO upload/download
> > > or simply shipping a DVD (which I'll be happy to exchange or pay
> > > for)....let me know.  :-)   I'll keep ya'll posted on how things go with
> > > the netbook.  I'm going to try it as a thin-client as well.
> > > 
> > > David N. Trask
> > > Technology Teacher/Director
> > > Vassalboro Community School
> > > dtrask at vcsvikings.org
> > > (207)923-3100
> > > 
> > > 
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