[gentoo-user] Anyone have experience with Acer netbooks ?

[gentoo-user] Anyone have experience with Acer netbooks ?

[waltdnes]

  Specifically the 11.6" screen Acer Aspireone AO751h-1505 Netbook at
http://canadacomputers.com/index.php?do=ShowProduct&cmd=pd&pid=024766&cid=NBK.862.670

  I intend to install Gentoo on it.

-- 
Walter Dnes <waltdnes@waltdnes.org>

Re: [gentoo-user] Anyone have experience with Acer netbooks ?

[Philip Webb]

091019 waltdnes@waltdnes.org requested comments re :
> the 11.6" screen Acer Aspireone AO751h-1505 Netbook at
>  http://canadacomputers.com/index.php?do=ShowProduct&cmd=pd&pid=024766&cid=NBK.862.670
> I intend to install Gentoo on it.

I bought an ASUS EeePC 1005HA there a couple of weeks ago
& have just finished checking out the hardware, which is ok.
Your preference costs  CAD 50  more, but features various improvements;
they seem to have sold out of the ASUS except the pink version (grin).

My next task is to look at the BIOS & make a bootable USB stick
with System Rescue on it, then decide whether to keep M$ XP around
& which version of Linux to install, probably Gentoo,
but I'm wary of doing a lot of compiling on the tiny machine
(alternatives wb Arch or Slackware).

Does anyone know how far it's feasible to compile pkgs on a desktop
-- I have a powerful machine with upto-date Gentoo for everyday use -- ,
then copy the results via USB stick into a netbook ?

Sorry not to answer your question directly, but this is related (smile).

-- 
========================,,============================================
SUPPORT     ___________//___,   Philip Webb
ELECTRIC   /] [] [] [] [] []|   Cities Centre, University of Toronto
TRANSIT    `-O----------O---'   purslowatchassdotutorontodotca

[gentoo-user] distcc for upgrading software on netbooks

[waltdnes]

On Mon, Oct 19, 2009 at 11:59:07PM -0400, Philip Webb wrote

> Does anyone know how far it's feasible to compile pkgs on a desktop
> -- I have a powerful machine with upto-date Gentoo for everyday use -- ,
> then copy the results via USB stick into a netbook ?

  See http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/distcc.xml A USB stick is OK for
rescue, but forget about using it for package transfer.  It's a lot
easier and faster to hook both machines up to a cheap router or switch
and let them talk directly to each other.

-- 
Walter Dnes <waltdnes@waltdnes.org>

Re: [gentoo-user] Anyone have experience with Acer netbooks ?

[Alan McKinnon]

On Tuesday 20 October 2009 05:59:07 Philip Webb wrote:
> Does anyone know how far it's feasible to compile pkgs on a desktop
> -- I have a powerful machine with upto-date Gentoo for everyday use -- ,
> then copy the results via USB stick into a netbook ?
> 

Trawl the archives over the last 60 months for Neil Bothwick's detailed posts 
on this very subject

-- 
alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com

Re: [gentoo-user] Anyone have experience with Acer netbooks ?

[Philip Webb]

091020 Alan McKinnon wrote:
> On Tuesday 20 October 2009 05:59:07 Philip Webb wrote:
>> Does anyone know how far it's feasible to compile pkgs on a desktop
>> -- I have a powerful machine with upto-date Gentoo for everyday use -- ,
>> then copy the results via USB stick into a netbook ?
> Trawl the archives over the last 60 months
> for Neil Bothwick's detailed posts on this very subject

Were there netbooks in 2004 ??  Anyway, I have most of them saved.
However, others may have experiences to relate for everyone's benefit.

-- 
========================,,============================================
SUPPORT     ___________//___,   Philip Webb
ELECTRIC   /] [] [] [] [] []|   Cities Centre, University of Toronto
TRANSIT    `-O----------O---'   purslowatchassdotutorontodotca

Re: [gentoo-user] Anyone have experience with Acer netbooks ?

[Alan McKinnon]

On Tuesday 20 October 2009 11:05:37 Philip Webb wrote:
> 091020 Alan McKinnon wrote:
> > On Tuesday 20 October 2009 05:59:07 Philip Webb wrote:
> >> Does anyone know how far it's feasible to compile pkgs on a desktop
> >> -- I have a powerful machine with upto-date Gentoo for everyday use -- ,
> >> then copy the results via USB stick into a netbook ?
> >
> > Trawl the archives over the last 60 months
> > for Neil Bothwick's detailed posts on this very subject
> 
> Were there netbooks in 2004 ??  Anyway, I have most of them saved.
> However, others may have experiences to relate for everyone's benefit.
> 

See children, this is what happens when you ask yourself daft questions like

"How many days in a month, and how many months make 60 days?"

You make big booboo typos. Learn from Uncle Alan and don't do it...

:-)


-- 
alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com

Re: [gentoo-user] Anyone have experience with Acer netbooks ?

[Albert Hopkins]

If anyone plans to try running Gentoo on the Nokia Desklet 3G I'd be
interested in talking with you.

-a