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Asus Aspire One Upgraded to Fedora 11

by Earl on June 10, 2009

in Linux, Observations

In January ‘09 I wrote of installing Linux Fedora 10 on my newly acquired Asus Aspire One Netbook. Today I upgraded the Aspire One to the newly released Fedora 11.
Actually it turned out not to really be an upgrade. I at first did choose to let Fedora 11 upgrade the Fedora 10 installation but [...]

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Attracting attention with an Acer Aspire One

by Earl on January 13, 2009

in Hardware

This morning I took my car to the dealer for routine maintenance recommended during a prior visit. I’d been told it would take 1.5 to 2 hours so I brought along both a book and my Acer Aspire One netbook to occupy my waiting time.
Normally I’d just wonder around the new car lot to pass [...]

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Acer Aspire One and Fedora 10, a great little combination

by Earl on January 1, 2009

in Hardware, Linux

This past holiday season Netbook computers were a leading seller for Amazon, and thanks to my dear wife I was a lucky recipients of one of those sales.
I received a Sapphire Blue Acer Aspire One 8.9-inch (1.6 GHz Atom Proc, 1 GB RAM, 160 GB HD, XP Home, 6 Cell Battery) Netbook.
One of the most [...]

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Contemplating OpenSUSE 11

by Earl on June 21, 2008

in Linux

Confession: I haven’t always been a Mac user and I still sometimes stray from the path.
I’ve an older Intel P4 PC (one I built years ago) that I keep around for various purposes. For one, I believe Linux has promise and occasionally I like to install some of the newer releases and [...]

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