I took a look at their project generator for developing software for the OS and wrote an Ubuntu 9.04 installation guide:

“I took much of my information from their page, but since their Ubuntu guide doesn’t work for 9.04, I rewrote it.” visit here

1. Install Git

$ sudo apt-get install git-core

2. Install dependencies

$ apt-get install libmagic-dev libglade2-dev libglib2.0-dev libgconf2-dev libxml2-dev

$ sudo apt-get install gtk-doc-tools libtool (those lines were missing in the original tutorial)

3. Download the source-code

$ git clone git://git.moblin.org/projgen.git

4. Build, Install & Run

$ cd projgen

$ ./autogen.sh

$ make

$ sudo make install

$ projgen

Now if you get a shared library error, follow these steps:

$ sudo gedit /etc/ld.so.conf

and make sure these lines are in there and or add them: include /usr/local/lib

and now run $ projgen and it should launch.

When we look at some other products, like my recently purchased Samsung N310 0r the Nokia N72 mobile phone, it will become clear that Apple names are much more recognizable for people.

Conclusion: product names which are made out of real words, make life easier!

I replaced my Acer Aspire One netbook for the Samsung N310. It has a 10inch screen, Atom inside, 1GB of Ram, 160GBs of space and a nice keyboard. Almost everything works on it after installing Ubuntu 9.04. The only thing that doesn’t work is the brightness control with the ‘Fn’ keys (the power manager works though).So if your looking for a Ubuntu ready netbook, buy this one!

Firstly I tried to boot the Ubuntu 8.04 liveCD, but it it didn’t work for me. After some reading in the Aspireoneuser forum, I discovered that some people had the same problems and tried Ubuntu 8.04.1 which works. (so remember: never download the x.x version but the x.x.1 one )

All the installing went fine and I followed this tutorial to install some hardware and configure the SSD:

Help@Ubuntu

There are some good things about installing Ubuntu:

• You can now write and read Windows partitions
• You can access Windows networks
• More installable packages (like conky for example)
• Up to Date packages (OpenOffice, FF3, 3D drivers)
• Login security

And of course the bad things:

• Crappy flash framerates and no sound
• All the hardware installing
• SSD performs slower (I have the Intel SSD)
• Startup times slower

(or follow this tutorial to shut your Acer desktop permanent off: here , but I do not recommend using it because there are some problems with it)

kill the process xfdesktop2 (Ctrl+Alt+Del)

Then open your terminal and type:

xfdesktop-xfce

Your xfce desktop will now appear on your screen with some icons. Now start up:

System -> Add/Remove Software (in advanced menu)
Search for “conky” and install the fedora 8 package.

Now you need to place your .conkyrc configuration file in your homefolder called:

/home/user/

Then open your terminal and type:

conky

Conky should now run.

NOTE: After reboot everything will be resetted

(I still need to figure out how to start conky from script)

The Acer Aspire One A110 comes with Linpus pre-installed. Linpus is a Linux distribution based on Fedora.

Here are some pictures and screen shots:

(I ran: Pygame, pyGTK and Python in the last 3 screenshots)

]]> http://lockwooddev.wordpress.com/2008/08/05/acer-aspire-one-the-beginning/feed/ 7 lockwooddev http://lockwooddev.wordpress.com/2008/07/02/math-xo-update-3/ http://lockwooddev.wordpress.com/2008/07/02/math-xo-update-3/#comments Wed, 02 Jul 2008 09:22:19 +0000 lockwooddev http://lockwooddev.wordpress.com/?p=40 ]]> I continued working on math-xo the last two days and I made some big changes. I resized the resolution up to 1200×900 (the XO-1 screen res), I doubled the size of the buttons, I added a menu bar and I added subtraction, multiplication and addition buttons. The whole thing is now running on the XO-1.

The only thing I still have to do is making a math-xo.xo package…

for example (terrain.txt):

g = grass, b= box and f = floor

check the special “Battle for Europe (WIP)” page on the right for more info…

I bought it from Frank in Amsterdam for 280 euro . It’s a new XO from OLPCs G1G1.