[nzlug] Acer + Ubuntu: initial impressions.

[Simon Bridge]

On Tue, 2008-04-01 at 23:31 +1300, Robin Sheat wrote:
> On Tuesday 01 April 2008 22:59:21 Simon Bridge wrote:
> > Interesting idea - such a person would want ext2 and would disable
> > sources by commenting out the lines in sources.list
> 
> Yep.
> 
Much of the rest looks like that too... 10a ago, you'd not expect to get
wifi or dialup working without heartache.

> > However - they went to the trouble of moving said HW into the new
> > form-factor. Perhaps I should play closer attention to how the live disk
> > behaves?
> 
> I haven't compared it to other ones, but if you were making a laptop 
> specifically for linux, the first person you talked to would tell you to not 
> use a network card that required a windows driver.

The Aetheros cards seem to be very common on cheaper laptops - which
this is. If it is on a mini-pci card, there's not much excuse.

> Did wireless work out of the box, or does it still require ndiswrapper?

Both :)
It worked out of the box - not tested with WPA (really should) - but it
uses ndiswrapper.

> > training (the username was "DECA Training"). I'm definitely calling DSE
> > tomorrow.
> 
> When you do an OEM install of Ubuntu, you have to provide a username that is 
> temporary that it uses to do the setup. I think (although I didn't check when 
> I was playing with it today) that it goes away/gets renamed after the user 
> sets it up. It's likely that's what you're seeing. Maybe they did that on the 
> machine they used as the image base.
Oh no ... was never asked for a user name. No location, nothing. Though
the instructions said I'd need to. And what a funny thing to call it.
Nah - this is a setup user.