Re: Netbook acer ao-722 bz-893

2012-07-14 Thread Worrier Poet
On 07/14/2012 11:14 AM, Charles Kroeger wrote: > On Fri, 13 Jul 2012 15:50:02 +0200 > Dr Beco wrote: > >> It would be so nice to buy a good netbook with debian on it out of the box! > > I feel like Kitchner at Khartoum alas too late. If you are an American Doctor > you > won't be short of money

Re: Netbook acer ao-722 bz-893

2012-07-14 Thread Charles Kroeger
On Fri, 13 Jul 2012 15:50:02 +0200 Dr Beco wrote: > It would be so nice to buy a good netbook with debian on it out of the box! I feel like Kitchner at Khartoum alas too late. If you are an American Doctor you won't be short of money, so I could suggest the best place to go for that, probably a

Re: Netbook acer ao-722 bz-893

2012-07-13 Thread Dr Beco
> I bought an Acer AO 722-C52kk because it looked good; wished I hadn't, nice > machine but, oh the trouble to get it working properly, (sound still using > wrong card, or some such). > > Your ethernet should just work with almost all Linux distros OOB using DHCP; > I think there is a problem there

Re: Netbook acer ao-722 bz-893

2012-07-12 Thread Charles Kroeger
Before you give up you might just try the latest installer: Make a disk from the testing .iso image and see what its installer can do. Debian Installer 7.0 Alpha1 release http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-installer/ Choose your architecture and the image you want. I usually download the 'net-i

Re: Netbook acer ao-722 bz-893

2012-07-12 Thread Keith McKenzie
On 11 July 2012 21:13, Dr Beco wrote: > Dear Linuxers, > > (about debian on Netbook Acer AO-722, BZ-893) > > Some days ago I've got an Asus Eee-PC 1215B and I had a lot of trouble > to make wireless and cable to work. To the point I got near a deadline > of 7 days before returning it to the store

Re: netbook

2012-06-20 Thread Camaleón
2012/6/19 tolv : > On Mon, 18 Jun 2012 14:57:16 + (UTC) > Camaleón wrote: > >> On Mon, 18 Jun 2012 15:54:36 +0200, Andrej Kacian wrote: >> > Claws Mail is a nice MTA, with optional layout for small screens. >> >> Claws Mail has a big handicap for me (of course, this is a personal POV) >> bec

Re: netbook

2012-06-19 Thread Chris Bannister
On Mon, Jun 18, 2012 at 12:31:16PM +0200, tolv wrote: > Hallo to all netbook-user, > > to be fast with your netbook which programms do you use for > - e-mails mutt+maildrop+fetchmail > - calendar remind+wyrd+builtin date and cal commands > - contacts? abook -- "If you're not careful, the newspap

Re: netbook

2012-06-18 Thread JulHer
El lun, 18-06-2012 a las 12:31 +0200, tolv escribió: > to be fast with your netbook which programms do you use for > - e-mails Evolution > - calendar Evolution > - contacts? Evolution Greetings signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: netbook

2012-06-18 Thread Camaleón
On Mon, 18 Jun 2012 15:54:36 +0200, Andrej Kacian wrote: > On Mon, 18 Jun 2012 13:34:48 + (UTC) Camaleón > wrote: > >> Agree, but there are some gotchas to take into account other than >> memory and processor capabilities, for instance, some of the "big" >> applications (e. g., Evolution) do

Re: netbook

2012-06-18 Thread Andrej Kacian
On Mon, 18 Jun 2012 13:34:48 + (UTC) Camaleón wrote: > Agree, but there are some gotchas to take into account other than > memory and processor capabilities, for instance, some of the "big" > applications (e. g., Evolution) do not integrate well within 10.1" > screens meaning not all the butt

Re: netbook

2012-06-18 Thread Camaleón
On Mon, 18 Jun 2012 08:02:04 -0400, Gary Dale wrote: > On 18/06/12 06:31 AM, tolv wrote: >> Hallo to all netbook-user, >> >> to be fast with your netbook which programms do you use for >> - e-mails >> - calendar >> - contacts? >> >> > Whichever ones you like. They all run fine on a netbook. Agre

Re: netbook

2012-06-18 Thread Gary Dale
On 18/06/12 06:31 AM, tolv wrote: Hallo to all netbook-user, to be fast with your netbook which programms do you use for - e-mails - calendar - contacts? best regards, tolv Whichever ones you like. They all run fine on a netbook. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.

Re: netbook, close, suspend: ACPI?

2011-09-14 Thread Alexander Batischev
On Wed, Sep 14, 2011 at 07:34:01AM +0300, Mihamina Rakotomandimby wrote: > I just noticed that if I "close" (or fold) it, after a while it goes > to suspend state (or hibernate I dont know exactly). I have to > "open" it and press the power button in order to make it. If you need to press power bu

Re: netbook, close, suspend: ACPI?

2011-09-14 Thread Camaleón
On Wed, 14 Sep 2011 07:34:01 +0300, Mihamina Rakotomandimby wrote: > I have a small netbook that I broke the screen. > > I use it as a headless gateway now (the VGA port is still OK when > needed, I just have to plug a screen). > > I just noticed that if I "close" (or fold) it, after a while it

Re: Netbook unbable to boot from USB Drive

2011-02-10 Thread Camaleón
On Wed, 09 Feb 2011 21:25:25 -0500, Michael Dykes wrote: (...) > So, to recap, I have a USB stick w/ UNR Ubuntu 10.10 on it, and am > currently running Debian Lenny. I wish to switch back to Ubuntu 10.10, > but my machine no longer seems to be able to boot from the USB stick. > Please help!!! 1/

Re: Netbook unbable to boot from USB Drive

2011-02-09 Thread shawn wilson
On Wed, Feb 9, 2011 at 9:25 PM, Michael Dykes wrote: > To cut a long story short, I want to return to Ubuntu 10.10 - yet upon > downloading the 10.10. iso & using UNetBootin to wrtie this to a USB drive, > and trying to boot from that drive found that for some reason, my machine > will not boot fr

Re: Netbook Potential

2010-09-26 Thread Angus Hedger
On Sun, 26 Sep 2010 10:34:01 -0500 Greg Heilers wrote: > Can anyone provide any opinions about the following contraption?: > http://www.eglobalwireless.com/p-4333-new-7-mini-netbook-laptop-notebook-wifi-windows-black.aspx > Has it any Linux potential? At this retail, it is almost disposable. S

Re: Netbook Potential

2010-09-26 Thread Camaleón
On Sun, 26 Sep 2010 10:34:01 -0500, Greg Heilers wrote: > Can anyone provide any opinions about the following contraption?: > http://www.eglobalwireless.com/p-4333-new-7-mini-netbook-laptop- notebook-wifi-windows-black.aspx > > Has it any Linux potential? At this retail, it is almost disposable.

Re: Netbook Potential

2010-09-26 Thread Angus Hedger
On Sun, 26 Sep 2010 10:34:01 -0500 Greg Heilers wrote: > Can anyone provide any opinions about the following contraption?: > http://www.eglobalwireless.com/p-4333-new-7-mini-netbook-laptop-notebook-wifi-windows-black.aspx > > Has it any Linux potential? At this retail, it is almost disposable.

Re: netbook for debian

2009-03-01 Thread Peter Robinson
(...) Thanks to all who ansered. For what it's worth I have decided to go with the Asus EeePC 901, which is available here for 235 Euro and would seem to be more than enough for my needs (especially since debian support seems to be excellent). cheers Peter -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-

Re: netbook for debian

2009-03-01 Thread Dean Chester
On Sun, Mar 1, 2009 at 3:30 PM, Michael Pobega wrote: > On Sun, Mar 01, 2009 at 10:17:00AM +0100, Peter Robinson wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > I am thinking of buying a netbook and would like to ask for opinions > > about good options for use with debian (preferably, alternatively > > Ubuntu). At th

Re: netbook for debian

2009-03-01 Thread Michael Pobega
On Sun, Mar 01, 2009 at 10:17:00AM +0100, Peter Robinson wrote: > Hi all, > > I am thinking of buying a netbook and would like to ask for opinions > about good options for use with debian (preferably, alternatively > Ubuntu). At the moment, I have been looking at > Samsung NC10-anyNet KA06DE 10

Re: netbook for debian

2009-03-01 Thread Robert Epprecht
Peter Robinson writes: > I am thinking of buying a netbook and would like to ask for opinions > about good options for use with debian > Asus Eee PC 1000H 10 Zoll WSVGA Netbook http://wiki.debian.org/DebianEeePC BTW: the 901 is also a very good choice, especially if you like it small. Robert

Re: netbook for debian

2009-03-01 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
Peter Robinson wrote: > I am thinking of buying a netbook and would like to ask for opinions > about good options for use with debian (preferably, alternatively > Ubuntu). At the moment, I have been looking at > Samsung NC10-anyNet KA06DE 10,2 Zoll WSVGA Netbook > and > Asus Eee PC 1000H 10 Zoll WS

Re: netbook and diskless workstations

1997-09-15 Thread Karl M. Hegbloom
> "Colin" == Colin R Telmer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Colin> Does anyone have any experience using netboot? Look into the `transnames' kernel patch; which I think might be part of the 2.1.x kernels now. With that, I think you could boot a '95 workstation with a floppy. The kernel on

Re: netbook and diskless workstations

1997-09-10 Thread Jim Pick
> Is it possible to use netboot to boot > these machines from floppy to run off of one of the debian machines? I don't know about netboot - but the nfsroot package does this. Pretty slick. :-) Cheers, - Jim pgpIx7sU3NN5U.pgp Description: PGP signature