flip flop

I am so fickle! A couple of posts ago I mentioned Valerie’s new netbook and that I would get one later. Then I saw the upcoming Dell mini 10 and thought that the 1366×768 resolution it will get sounded sweet. But the more I think about it, the more I want a Linux netbook. That’s easy to test out, right? I have an Aspire One. Just boot a LiveCD Linux distro. Thing is, the AspireOne doesn’t have an optical drive. I need to boot from a thumb drive. I went looking and found a wicked cool utility to create a Fedora Linux USB drive. There is also a lifehacker.com review of it. I used it to install Fedora 10 on a 2 GB drive. There is also the option to install previous versions of Fedora all the way back to 7, maybe 6. It took about half of the drive. I booted it with my Thinkpad T61 and it came up fine. Except for the wireless that I have yet to have work right under Linux. I don’t know why and I’m tired of trying to get it working. So, the reason for creating the USB drive in the first place, I booted the Aspire One. It booted right up. I clicked on the network icon in the top toolbar and selected our WiFi network. Instead of getting an error like I do on the Thinkpad I got a window asking for the password. I filled in the password and off we go. No muss no fuss. I’ll play around with it for a while but I think this is what I want. The thing I really don’t like though is that all the Linux netbooks tend to have 4 or 8 GB SSD drives. I’m sorry but I’ll buy the Windows XP version with a 160 GB drive and load Fedora on it. Wonder if I can find the story on how that guy got a refund from Microsoft…