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Acer + Android

Clair Ching — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 11:52:06 +0000

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 who want to play around with Android on their netbooks, this would be interesting because at least you get hardware that works with the software already. Unless Acer releases something half-baked, that is. I don’t think they would be doing that because their customers could end up complaining.

Somehow, I’d like to see Android on even smaller devices like the Sony Vaio P Series that just looks like a pocketbook because it somehow feels right to me for it to ‘feel very mobile’ due to its size. Or maybe something like a DS Lite or a DSi. The DSi could even connect to wireless internet even with WPA security so I wonder if there’s a way to load Android there for the heck of it.

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AAO and Ubuntu Jaunty Jackalope

Clair Ching — Sun, 03 May 2009 19:51:17 +0000

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 problem with the sound. Now I can plug in my earphones to my netbook and my laptop speakers are not activated unlike right after the upgrade.

One of the interesting things of note is that ext4 is said to work just fine. Oh well, I just upgraded so I am still on ext3 but I’d try to see if anyone I know personally know is on ext4 and get feedback from them.

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Easy Peasy

Clair Ching — Sat, 25 Apr 2009 01:27:36 +0000

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 to have support for Acer Aspire One. It’s a big deal for me, of course. And if ever this is useful information for friends of mine using the Asus EEE.

Hopefully I’d be able to test it within the weekend so I could post my own review and some screenshots for you to see. If you’ve got your own reviews, feel free to comment so I could link to your blog entries.

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