Re: Recommendation for a netbook

2021-02-08 Thread Alain D D Williams
On Mon, Feb 08, 2021 at 12:47:41PM +0100, Hans wrote: > Am Montag, 8. Februar 2021, 12:29:25 CET schrieb Joe: > Hi, > > well IMHO it depends, what you are going to do with it. > > As you might know, those netbooks are not the fastest ones, but maybe boot > time is not so important, as you can us

Re: Recommendation for a netbook

2021-02-08 Thread Hans
Am Montag, 8. Februar 2021, 12:29:25 CET schrieb Joe: Hi, well IMHO it depends, what you are going to do with it. As you might know, those netbooks are not the fastest ones, but maybe boot time is not so important, as you can use suspend-to-ram. For me personally there are some things important

Re: Recommendation for a netbook

2021-02-08 Thread Joe
On Mon, 8 Feb 2021 10:57:11 +0100 Nicolas George wrote: > Nicolas George (12021-01-25): > > I'll have to retire my current netbook soon. It was a Lenovo Miix > > 3-1030 from 2015; it has a good screen but otherwise is complete > > crap, with non-standard unsupported ha

Re: Recommendation for a netbook

2021-02-08 Thread Nicolas George
Nicolas George (12021-01-25): > I'll have to retire my current netbook soon. It was a Lenovo Miix > 3-1030 from 2015; it has a good screen but otherwise is complete crap, > with non-standard unsupported hardware and other drawbacks. > > I need a ~10 inches touchscreen, a

Re: Recommendation for a netbook

2021-01-26 Thread deloptes
Peter Ehlert wrote: > we have several HP 820 Elitebooks. like a rock. > 10" but no touch screen. I think they sold for +/- $1000 when new. > all of these were eBay finds, probably paid less than $250 each 4 or 5 > years ago. Yes I also tend to buy used (better refurbished) when I know the make an

Re: Recommendation for a netbook

2021-01-25 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Lu, 25 ian 21, 16:20:16, Nicolas George wrote: > Andrew M.A. Cater (12021-01-25): > > > These all suggest you might want to go with a second hand or > > > refurbished machine. > > > Second hand Lenovo Yoga - but one of the ones with a decent hinge and > > a decent amount of memory? > > Thanks

Re: Recommendation for a netbook

2021-01-25 Thread Peter Ehlert
On 1/25/21 3:29 PM, deloptes wrote: Nicolas George wrote: This does not look compatible with "I need it to be not expensive, because that's for taking in transports daily and sometimes leaving unsupervised in classrooms". It is good quality for the money - what means expensive?! My advise i

Re: Recommendation for a netbook

2021-01-25 Thread deloptes
Nicolas George wrote: > This does not look compatible with "I need it to be not expensive, > because that's for taking in transports daily and sometimes leaving > unsupervised in classrooms". > It is good quality for the money - what means expensive?! My advise is buy good hardware - and it is u

Re: Recommendation for a netbook

2021-01-25 Thread Nicolas George
deloptes (12021-01-25): > Meanwhile I guess all of them are maid in China. I do not have a fetish for maids. > What I recommend (even second hand) but let it be Business Class Notebook. > I use Latitude from Dell and Probook by HP. > The Latitudes I had 34xx - was a crap, but 54xx is great This

Re: Recommendation for a netbook

2021-01-25 Thread deloptes
Nicolas George wrote: > As I said, I do not want second-hand, and Lenovo has lost my trust. Meanwhile I guess all of them are maid in China. What I recommend (even second hand) but let it be Business Class Notebook. I use Latitude from Dell and Probook by HP. The Latitudes I had 34xx - was a cr

Re: Recommendation for a netbook

2021-01-25 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Mon, Jan 25, 2021 at 05:24:34PM +0100, Nicolas George wrote: > Andrew M.A. Cater (12021-01-25): > > 10" no longer seems to exist: Dells/Asus/Lenovo seem to start at 12.5 / > > 13 inch. 11.6" seems to be Chromebooks. > > Then I will take larger than 10". > > > Secondhand seems to be the only w

Re: Recommendation for a netbook

2021-01-25 Thread Nicolas George
I am considering the Acer TravelMate Spin B3. Does anybody here have experience with this exact model? Or, if not, with a similar enough model? https://www.acer.com/ac/en/US/content/professional-model/NX.VN2AA.001 Regards, -- Nicolas George signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: Recommendation for a netbook

2021-01-25 Thread Nicolas George
Andrew M.A. Cater (12021-01-25): > 10" no longer seems to exist: Dells/Asus/Lenovo seem to start at 12.5 / > 13 inch. 11.6" seems to be Chromebooks. Then I will take larger than 10". > Secondhand seems to be the only way you'll find something. The Lenovo X131 > I have next to me lasted for sever

Re: Recommendation for a netbook

2021-01-25 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Mon, Jan 25, 2021 at 04:20:16PM +0100, Nicolas George wrote: > Andrew M.A. Cater (12021-01-25): > > > These all suggest you might want to go with a second hand or > > > refurbished machine. > > > Second hand Lenovo Yoga - but one of the ones with a decent hinge and > > a decent amount of memor

Re: Recommendation for a netbook

2021-01-25 Thread Nicolas George
Andrew M.A. Cater (12021-01-25): > > These all suggest you might want to go with a second hand or > > refurbished machine. > Second hand Lenovo Yoga - but one of the ones with a decent hinge and > a decent amount of memory? Thanks for the suggestion, but second-hand is definitely something I do

Re: Recommendation for a netbook

2021-01-25 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Mon, Jan 25, 2021 at 09:52:52AM -0500, Stefan Monnier wrote: > > I need a ~10 inches touchscreen, and I want a good-ish resolution > > (≥1600). > > Sounds like this might prove to be the main criteria. > > > And I need it to be not expensive, because that's for taking in > > transports daily a

Re: Recommendation for a netbook

2021-01-25 Thread Stefan Monnier
> I need a ~10 inches touchscreen, and I want a good-ish resolution > (≥1600). Sounds like this might prove to be the main criteria. > And I need it to be not expensive, because that's for taking in > transports daily and sometimes leaving unsupervised in > classrooms. Apart from that, having the

Recommendation for a netbook

2021-01-25 Thread Nicolas George
Hi. I'll have to retire my current netbook soon. It was a Lenovo Miix 3-1030 from 2015; it has a good screen but otherwise is complete crap, with non-standard unsupported hardware and other drawbacks. I need a ~10 inches touchscreen, and I want a good-ish resolution (≥1600). And I need it

Re: trying to grab video of screen on a Thinkpad x130e netbook . . .

2019-08-27 Thread Albretch Mueller
On 8/24/19, Pétùr wrote: > ffmpeg -f x11grab -s 1280x720 -r 25 -i :0.0 screencast.mp4 but where did the audio go? it worked but not always. base on its logs ffmpeg seems to be making a video, but vlc doesn't show to me the actual video even though the file is there. Why is it that the video

Re: trying to grab video of screen on a Thinkpad x130e netbook . . .

2019-08-24 Thread Georgi Naplatanov
On 8/24/19 3:53 PM, Pétùr wrote: > On 24/08/19 13:29, Albretch Mueller wrote: >> How can I make a video from what is displayed on the screen using >> ffmpeg, aconv or whatever? > > ffmpeg -f x11grab -s 1280x720 -r 25 -i :0.0 screencast.mp4 > > Or you can use Simple Screen Recorder https://trac

Re: trying to grab video of screen on a Thinkpad x130e netbook . . .

2019-08-24 Thread Pétùr
On 24/08/19 13:29, Albretch Mueller wrote: How can I make a video from what is displayed on the screen using ffmpeg, aconv or whatever? ffmpeg -f x11grab -s 1280x720 -r 25 -i :0.0 screencast.mp4

trying to grab video of screen on a Thinkpad x130e netbook . . .

2019-08-24 Thread Albretch Mueller
atever? lbrtcxh:debian-user:trying to grab video of screen on a Thinkpad x130e netbook . . .

Re: XFCE is slow on Acer One netbook - suggestions?

2013-10-18 Thread Joe
On Fri, 18 Oct 2013 13:37:44 +0200 berenger.mo...@neutralite.org wrote: > Am 17.10.2013 um 16:45 schrieb Joe : > > >> Both LXDE and XFCE use Openbox, but of course there are many > >> others. > > XFCE uses it's own wm: xfwm4. Of course, you can use openbox with > XFCE, but it is not the defaul

Re: XFCE is slow on Acer One netbook - suggestions?

2013-10-18 Thread berenger . morel
Le 18.10.2013 09:30, Helmut Wollmersdorfer a écrit : Am 17.10.2013 um 16:45 schrieb Joe : There is mate, allegedly a fork of Gnome2, I haven't tried it. I do use LXDE on my sid desktop and also on my Aspire One netbook. I have the one with the slightly smaller case and SSD, which h

Re: XFCE is slow on Acer One netbook - suggestions?

2013-10-18 Thread Helmut Wollmersdorfer
Am 17.10.2013 um 16:45 schrieb Joe : > There is mate, allegedly a fork of Gnome2, I haven't tried it. I do use > LXDE on my sid desktop and also on my Aspire One netbook. I have the > one with the slightly smaller case and SSD, which has an unbelievably > slow write speed. I us

Re: XFCE is slow on Acer One netbook - suggestions?

2013-10-18 Thread Helmut Wollmersdorfer
Am 17.10.2013 um 13:21 schrieb Joel Rees : > On Thu, Oct 17, 2013 at 5:09 PM, Helmut Wollmersdorfer > wrote: >> Hi, >> >> my netbook is a ~5 years old Acer One with Atom processor, 1 GB memory and >> 150 GB HDD. […] > > Have you checked the hardware

Re: XFCE is slow on Acer One netbook - suggestions?

2013-10-17 Thread LostSon
ops. Not performing on this hardware good enough, too often reaching >> the limits. >> >> But even worse is the bad usability of Gnome3. >> >> That's why I tried >> >> 4) Install XFCE without removing Gnome, because I need the convenience >> of the

Re: XFCE is slow on Acer One netbook - suggestions?

2013-10-17 Thread Dmitrii Kashin
s. > > But even worse is the bad usability of Gnome3. > > That's why I tried > > 4) Install XFCE without removing Gnome, because I need the convenience > of the network-manager (I use the netbook in a dozen different > locations/networks) > > It's still slow

Re: XFCE is slow on Acer One netbook - suggestions?

2013-10-17 Thread berenger . morel
Le 17.10.2013 10:09, Helmut Wollmersdorfer a écrit : 4) Install XFCE without removing Gnome, because I need the convenience of the network-manager (I use the netbook in a dozen different locations/networks) Run: #services --status-all And check if you can remove some services. Network manager

Re: XFCE is slow on Acer One netbook - suggestions?

2013-10-17 Thread Joe
On Thu, 17 Oct 2013 10:09:04 +0200 Helmut Wollmersdorfer wrote: > Hi, > > my netbook is a ~5 years old Acer One with Atom processor, 1 GB > memory and 150 GB HDD. > > The history of used configuration is: > > 1) Debian Lenny KDE3 > > 2) repartition and fr

Re: XFCE is slow on Acer One netbook - suggestions?

2013-10-17 Thread Joel Rees
On Thu, Oct 17, 2013 at 5:09 PM, Helmut Wollmersdorfer wrote: > Hi, > > my netbook is a ~5 years old Acer One with Atom processor, 1 GB memory and > 150 GB HDD. > > The history of used configuration is: > > 1) Debian Lenny KDE3 > > 2) repartition and fresh insta

XFCE is slow on Acer One netbook - suggestions?

2013-10-17 Thread Helmut Wollmersdorfer
Hi, my netbook is a ~5 years old Acer One with Atom processor, 1 GB memory and 150 GB HDD. The history of used configuration is: 1) Debian Lenny KDE3 2) repartition and fresh install of Squeze + Gnome2 With Gnome2 I was very happy and the PC was good performing. 3) Upgrade to Wheezy

Re: Wheezy. Xorg failure at AMD Brazos netbook

2012-12-05 Thread Leonid Korostyshevski
distro. > > > > Not sure about "recovery" mode naming as a GRUB2 entry. It > leads > > > to the > > > > same noise on screen, not to safe plain VGA CLI environment, > > as it > > > > suppose to be IMHO

Re: Wheezy. Xorg failure at AMD Brazos netbook

2012-12-05 Thread John Anderson
> enable > > > Ctrl+Alt+Backspace for "testing" distro. > > > Not sure about "recovery" mode naming as a GRUB2 entry. It leads > > to the > > > same noise on screen, not to safe plain VGA CLI envi

Re: Wheezy. Xorg failure at AMD Brazos netbook

2012-12-04 Thread Leonid Korostyshevski
t; enable > > > Ctrl+Alt+Backspace for "testing" distro. > > > Not sure about "recovery" mode naming as a GRUB2 entry. It leads > > to the > > > same noise on screen, not to safe plain VGA CLI environment, as it > >

Re: Wheezy. Xorg failure at AMD Brazos netbook

2012-12-04 Thread John Anderson
a GRUB2 entry. It leads > to the > > same noise on screen, not to safe plain VGA CLI environment, as it > > suppose to be IMHO. "Testing" shouldn't be "stuck with" IMHO :0) > > Hardware in use - netbook on AMD Brazos (C-60 + ATI 6250).

evolution, synchronisation, netbook <-> pc

2012-11-10 Thread wi
Hej, I use debian 6 on a netbook and on a pc. I want to synchronize evolution; that I can use evolution on my netbook outside, synchronize evolution and use evolution on my pc inside. I tried unison (.evolution). But not all calendars and contacts are synchronized. Is there a possibility

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 >

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,

Re: Netbook acer ao-722 bz-893

2012-07-13 Thread Dr Beco
erday, but now maybe is too late, because the store already put back windows 7 on it. It would be so nice to buy a good netbook with debian on it out of the box! Cheers, Beco -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trou

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

Netbook acer ao-722 bz-893

2012-07-11 Thread Dr Beco
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, and I decided to return it. I changed to an

Re: Wheezy. Xorg failure at AMD Brazos netbook

2012-07-08 Thread Renato
mode naming as a GRUB2 entry. It leads to the > same noise on screen, not to safe plain VGA CLI environment, as it > suppose to be IMHO. "Testing" shouldn't be "stuck with" IMHO :0) > Hardware in use - netbook on AMD Brazos (C-60 + ATI 6250). No 'lspci' a

netbook asus eee PC 1215B

2012-07-03 Thread Dr Beco
Dear moderators and users, I'm terrible sorry for this portuguese message. Beco -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/caluyw2y14kuddhv-2xow8qjei+bcl7korg+

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

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? >> >> > W

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

netbook

2012-06-18 Thread tolv
Hallo to all netbook-user, to be fast with your netbook which programms do you use for - e-mails - calendar - contacts? best regards, tolv -- tolv -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.

Re: Wheezy. Xorg failure at AMD Brazos netbook

2012-04-17 Thread Leonid Korostyshevski
. It leads to the >> same noise on screen, not to safe plain VGA CLI environment, as it >> suppose to be IMHO. "Testing" shouldn't be "stuck with" IMHO :0) >> >> Hardware in use - netbook on AMD Brazos (C-60 + ATI 6250). No 'lspci' at >>

Re: Wheezy. Xorg failure at AMD Brazos netbook

2012-02-02 Thread Bob
uldn't be "stuck with" IMHO :0) Hardware in use - netbook on AMD Brazos (C-60 + ATI 6250). No 'lspci' at the moment, sorry. During installation process, 3.1.x.-486 kernel was chosen. Would you, please, to give an advice how to override Xorg fault? Thanks a lot! LK Don

Wheezy. Xorg failure at AMD Brazos netbook

2012-01-31 Thread Leonid Korostyshevski
+Alt+Backspace for "testing" distro. Not sure about "recovery" mode naming as a GRUB2 entry. It leads to the same noise on screen, not to safe plain VGA CLI environment, as it suppose to be IMHO. "Testing" shouldn't be "stuck with" IMHO :0) Hardware in

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" (o

netbook, close, suspend: ACPI?

2011-09-13 Thread Mihamina Rakotomandimby
Hi all, 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 goes to suspend state (or hibernate I dont know exactl

SOLVED: Problem mounting USB stick after installing Squeeze in new netbook

2011-05-15 Thread Chris Austin
I have just installed Squeeze in a new eMachines E350 netbook, my first laptop, using the .iso image of CD-1 on a USB stick. The install went perfectly, thank you very much to all the developers. A problem emerged today when I tried to transfer some files from the desktop computer to the netbook

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

Netbook unbable to boot from USB Drive

2011-02-09 Thread Michael Dykes
Hullo all. I recently wanted to install and try out Debian, so I installed what I thought was the latest version of Debian- lenny. I tried to re-download my favourite programs, and then found out I needed Debian Squeeze to do so. I have yet to get that version of debian on my netbook. To cut a

Re: Debian on Netbook mainly for PHP and AS3 Dev, but keeping Win XP

2011-01-24 Thread godo
On 01/24/2011 10:15 AM, Maurycy Zarzycki wrote: Hello, Hi My Netbook is MSI Wind U100, the specs: <http://www.umpcportal.com/products/MSI/Wind/U100> though I have 2GB of RAM and bigger HD. Let me list my concerns to make it easier: * There is some kind of visual interface... Right?

Re: Debian on Netbook mainly for PHP and AS3 Dev, but keeping Win XP

2011-01-24 Thread Celejar
On Mon, 24 Jan 2011 10:15:07 +0100 Maurycy Zarzycki wrote: > Hello, > > I hope this is the right place to ask. Recently I got under my care an > unmanaged Debian VPS, and I kinda grew to like it rather much, so an > idea struck me to install Debian on my netbook. I primarily us

Debian on Netbook mainly for PHP and AS3 Dev, but keeping Win XP

2011-01-24 Thread Maurycy Zarzycki
Hello, I hope this is the right place to ask. Recently I got under my care an unmanaged Debian VPS, and I kinda grew to like it rather much, so an idea struck me to install Debian on my netbook. I primarily use it for PHP and AS3 development (pure as3, no flash professional flash-educated

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 d

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 almos

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 almos

Netbook Potential

2010-09-26 Thread Greg Heilers
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. Thanks -- Greg Heilers Registered Linux user #328317

Re: Debian on Acer netbook

2010-01-18 Thread Marco Vaschetto
Lisi ha scritto: On Sunday 17 January 2010 22:29:35 you wrote: Lisi ha scritto: On Sunday 17 January 2010 12:00:13 Rodolfo Medina wrote: On Friday 15 January 2010 23:04:14 Rodolfo Medina wrote: Does anybody know if Debian works fine on the netbook Acer Aspire ONE 531H

Re: Debian on Acer netbook

2010-01-17 Thread Lisi
On Sunday 17 January 2010 12:00:13 Rodolfo Medina wrote: > On Friday 15 January 2010 23:04:14 Rodolfo Medina wrote: > >> Does anybody know if Debian works fine on the netbook Acer Aspire ONE > >> 531H 10"? And if its 6 cells battery, that sould last at least 5 hours, >

Re: Debian on Acer netbook

2010-01-17 Thread Rodolfo Medina
On Friday 15 January 2010 23:04:14 Rodolfo Medina wrote: >> Does anybody know if Debian works fine on the netbook Acer Aspire ONE 531H >> 10"? And if its 6 cells battery, that sould last at least 5 hours, does not >> last less under Debian? Lisi writes: > I ha

Re: Debian on Acer netbook

2010-01-16 Thread Lisi
On Friday 15 January 2010 23:04:14 Rodolfo Medina wrote: > Does anybody know if Debian works fine on the netbook Acer Aspire ONE 531H > 10"? And if its 6 cells battery, that sould last at least 5 hours, does not > last less under Debian? I have Lenny installed on mine. Everything e

Re: Debian on Acer netbook

2010-01-15 Thread olafrv
Para: debian-user@lists.debian.org Asunto: Debian on Acer netbook Enviado: 15 Ene, 2010 6:34 PM Hi all. Does anybody know if Debian works fine on the netbook Acer Aspire ONE 531H 10"? And if its 6 cells battery, that sould last at least 5 hours, does not last less under Debian? Thanks fo

Re: Debian on Acer netbook

2010-01-15 Thread Mark
>On Fri, Jan 15, 2010 at 3:04 PM, Rodolfo Medina >wrote: >Hi all. > >Does anybody know if Debian works fine on the netbook Acer Aspire ONE 531H 10"? >And if its 6 cells battery, that sould last at least 5 hours, does not last >less under Debian? The hardware specs look

Debian on Acer netbook

2010-01-15 Thread Rodolfo Medina
Hi all. Does anybody know if Debian works fine on the netbook Acer Aspire ONE 531H 10"? And if its 6 cells battery, that sould last at least 5 hours, does not last less under Debian? Thanks for any help Rodolfo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a su

Re: New Dell netbook,Ubuntu,Debian and factory su password.

2009-06-30 Thread Avi Greenbury
Pete Boyd wrote: Ask your Ubuntu question here and you get a Debian answer, rather than an Ubuntu answer. The two worlds are subtly but importantly different. The answers to the same question on ubuntu-users[1] are mostly the same as here. Some people suggesting setting a password and then us

Re: New Dell netbook,Ubuntu,Debian and factory su password.

2009-06-29 Thread John Hasler
Pete Boyd writes: > The question is misguided as it assumes one wants to use an account > called 'root', but this concept doesn't exist on Ubuntu... Yes it does. It just has logins disabled. -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "un

Re: New Dell netbook Ubuntu,Debian,login problems-part 2.

2009-06-29 Thread Daryl Styrk
y problem is: > I do not know what is my Ubuntu user password,it do not come with the netbook > package(I purchased the netbook with a great discount price possibly from a > returned buy from another person,I do not see any card or so with login > information).When I turn on the netbook

New Dell netbook Ubuntu,Debian,login problems-part 2.

2009-06-29 Thread luis_a_maceira
Thanks to all who promptly have responded to my first question.Now I have a more effective knowledge about some of the differences between the two worlds in terms of power accounts,but I now see that my problem is: I do not know what is my Ubuntu user password,it do not come with the netbook

Re: New Dell netbook,Ubuntu,Debian and factory su password.

2009-06-29 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Monday 29 June 2009 16:28:11 thveillon.debian wrote: > Luis Maceira wrote: > > As a Debian user since 2005 last week I bought a Dell netbook running > > Ubuntu (since it is Debian based),but I am unable to do administrative > > tasks: upgrading,become su etc. because

Re: New Dell netbook,Ubuntu,Debian and factory su password.

2009-06-29 Thread Victor Padro
On Mon, Jun 29, 2009 at 10:22 AM, Luis Maceira wrote: > > As a Debian user since 2005 last week I bought a Dell netbook running Ubuntu > (since it is Debian based),but I am unable to do administrative tasks: > upgrading,become su etc. because I cannot find the su password in the docs

Re: New Dell netbook,Ubuntu,Debian and factory su password.

2009-06-29 Thread Pete Boyd
The question is misguided as it assumes one wants to use an account called 'root', but this concept doesn't exist on Ubuntu (yes it can if you want it to, but it doesn't by design, so why resurrect it). Answering that question for Luis doesn't answer his actual question, which is more like 'what is

Re: New Dell netbook,Ubuntu,Debian and factory su password.

2009-06-29 Thread Eduardo M KALINOWSKI
On Seg, 29 Jun 2009, Stephan Seitz wrote: On Mon, Jun 29, 2009 at 08:22:30AM -0700, Luis Maceira wrote: (since it is Debian based),but I am unable to do administrative tasks: upgrading,become su etc. because I cannot find the su password in the docs Maybe the root account is disabled. If you i

Re: New Dell netbook,Ubuntu,Debian and factory su password.

2009-06-29 Thread ghe
On 6/29/09 9:28 AM, thveillon.debian wrote: Hi, Ubuntu works with "sudo" only (and your user password), the root password isn't configured. You can use the "passwd" command to set it I believe. Yes. 'sudo passwd' works fine to enable root. -- Glenn English g...@slsware.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE

Re: New Dell netbook,Ubuntu,Debian and factory su password.

2009-06-29 Thread Stephan Seitz
On Mon, Jun 29, 2009 at 08:22:30AM -0700, Luis Maceira wrote: (since it is Debian based),but I am unable to do administrative tasks: upgrading,become su etc. because I cannot find the su password in the docs Maybe the root account is disabled. If you install lenny you can choose this option as

Re: New Dell netbook,Ubuntu,Debian and factory su password.

2009-06-29 Thread thveillon.debian
Luis Maceira wrote: > As a Debian user since 2005 last week I bought a Dell netbook running Ubuntu > (since it is Debian based),but I am unable to do administrative tasks: > upgrading,become su etc. because I cannot find the su password in the docs > that come with the netbook.

Re: New Dell netbook,Ubuntu,Debian and factory su password.

2009-06-29 Thread Avi Greenbury
Luis Maceira wrote: As a Debian user since 2005 last week I bought a Dell netbook running Ubuntu (since it is Debian based),but I am unable to do administrative tasks: upgrading,become su etc. because I cannot find the su password in the docs that come with the netbook.Is there any standard

New Dell netbook,Ubuntu,Debian and factory su password.

2009-06-29 Thread Luis Maceira
As a Debian user since 2005 last week I bought a Dell netbook running Ubuntu (since it is Debian based),but I am unable to do administrative tasks: upgrading,become su etc. because I cannot find the su password in the docs that come with the netbook.Is there any standard password that we use in

Re: [OT] netbook recommendation

2009-05-06 Thread Michael Pobega
On Wed, May 06, 2009 at 07:42:36AM +0200, Leonardo Canducci wrote: > 2009/5/6 Michael Pobega : > > On Tue, May 05, 2009 at 08:39:06PM +0200, Leonardo Canducci wrote: > >> > >> 1. cheap, light and small, otherwise no use for a netbook :) > >> > > >

Re: [OT] netbook recommendation

2009-05-05 Thread Bob Cox
On Tue, May 05, 2009 at 20:39:06 +0200, Leonardo Canducci (leonardo.candu...@gmail.com) wrote: > I'd like to buy a netbook and install debian on it, of course. It should be: > 1. cheap, light and small, otherwise no use for a netbook :) > 2. linux friendly > 3. usable (d

Re: [OT] netbook recommendation

2009-05-05 Thread Leonardo Canducci
2009/5/6 Leonardo Canducci : > 2009/5/5 Nick Lidakis : >> You didn't mention price. Right now, Lenovo has a sale on its X series > I didn't. But I said cheap. And 1000$ is not cheap. An used X series could > do but I think it's not cheap either. actually used X40 are cheap but almost certainly I s

Re: [OT] netbook recommendation

2009-05-05 Thread Leonardo Canducci
2009/5/6 Michael Pobega : > On Tue, May 05, 2009 at 08:39:06PM +0200, Leonardo Canducci wrote: >> >> 1. cheap, light and small, otherwise no use for a netbook :) >> > > Eee PC 901 :D > > 8.9" screen, 2.1 lbs weight > >> 2. linux friendly > >

Re: [OT] netbook recommendation

2009-05-05 Thread Michael Pobega
On Tue, May 05, 2009 at 08:39:06PM +0200, Leonardo Canducci wrote: > > 1. cheap, light and small, otherwise no use for a netbook :) > Eee PC 901 :D 8.9" screen, 2.1 lbs weight > 2. linux friendly I'm running Debian Squeeze on mine right now > 3. usable (decent ke

Re: [OT] netbook recommendation

2009-05-05 Thread Celejar
On Tue, 5 May 2009 20:39:06 +0200 Leonardo Canducci wrote: > I'd like to buy a netbook and install debian on it, of course. It should be: > 1. cheap, light and small, otherwise no use for a netbook :) > 2. linux friendly > 3. usable (decent keyboard, 9" screen minimum) >

Re: [OT] netbook recommendation

2009-05-05 Thread Chris Jones
> really cheap but has little battery and bradcom wifi. So... what would > > you recommend? > > I'm using an Eee PC 901 right now, although it's running Ubuntu 9.04 > (Netbook Remix) rather than Debian proper... works beautifully, and is > currently priced at abo

Re: [OT] netbook recommendation

2009-05-05 Thread Greg Norris
gt; you recommend? I'm using an Eee PC 901 right now, although it's running Ubuntu 9.04 (Netbook Remix) rather than Debian proper... works beautifully, and is currently priced at about $280. I made the following (mostly minor) tweaks: * Upgraded the memory to 2 GB (max supported

Re: [OT] netbook recommendation

2009-05-05 Thread Chris Jones
On Tue, May 05, 2009 at 03:00:56PM EDT, Stackpole, Chris wrote: [..] > My wife /loves/ her Ubuntu based Dell Mini 9. Personally, the only > drawback for me is I really don't like the keyboard. They rearranged the > key placement for some of the keys and it really messes me up sometime > (eg: the

Re: [OT] netbook recommendation

2009-05-05 Thread Leonardo Canducci
2009/5/5 Nick Lidakis : > You didn't mention price. Right now, Lenovo has a sale on its X series I didn't. But I said cheap. And 1000$ is not cheap. An used X series could do but I think it's not cheap either. > Always Innovating should be releasing their ARM based netbook

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