Looking for Android-powered netbooks? Acer might be coming up with something. It is reported that Acer is currently working on a netbook running Android. The market will have another choice when it comes to operating systems on the Acer Aspire One.
Interestingly enough, Acer might be releasing the Android-powered Acer Aspire One in the third quarter of the year. And they could probably even have a netbook sale around Thanksgiving, right? Or around Christmas time. A strategic time of release, don’t you think? Especially if these netbooks would cost lower. For Linux users …read more

Looks like good things are up ahead for us Acer Aspire One users who have installed or upgraded to Jaunty Jackalope/Ubuntu 9.04 I’ve just fixed the sound problem and LED for wifi issue with just one package which is linux-backports-modules-jaunty so that was such a happy happy thing!
The notes for the Acer Aspire One are straight to the point so it was easy to see the things one needs to do to make certain things work like wifi and sound. I suppose I was a bit lucky that after installing linux-backports-modules-jaunty I had no more …read more

Easy Peasy seems to be interesting enough for me to try it out — if I could download the iso without a hitch.  It’s going to take me more than an hour to get the iso and I just hope that everything will work fine.  The review on Cooking with Linux makes me want to try it out.  It sems to have Skype — something I’ve never really gotten to work quite right.
Things that got me interested in Easy Peasy:

Skype (the need to call up people abroad makes it necessary for me)
multimedia codecs
wifi
graphics

Also, the blogger mentioned that Easy Peasy seems …read more