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Fedora 16 on Acer Aspire One (A110L)

I should warn that F16 has been giving me a lot of wireless network disconnects under high network load; and also that Gnome3 is either good or bad, depending on your POV. I quite like it but think it has unaddressed weaknesses and weird UI defaults.

I think this is complete; but YMMV.

Create bootable Live CD image on a USB stick.

I’m not giving instructions for this step here; the Fedora Site does a much better job of it than I can, all the info and downloads you need are there. Use the 32 bit Live CD image. If you see the boot starts but then you just get [... read more]

November 22nd, 2011 | Tags: , | Category: Linux | 2 comments

Handy Trick for Fedora 16 / Gnome 3 : Disable Suspend.

This is dead simple; Gnome 3 tries to impose Suspend on users as the only true way(tm) to de-power their system; hiding PowerOff behind a modifier key. If suspend fails on your Fedora 16 Machine this is a constant source of irritation.

In short, to avoid a minor rant, suspend is quite a problem area for Linux and is broken on many common chipsets and systems. I have 2 Desktop machines and a NetBook all running Fedora 16, and suspend is broken on all of them, I suspect many others have a similar level of breakage.

Fortunately; the system policy framework on Linux is good; allowing us to simply tell [... read more]

November 15th, 2011 | Tags: , , | Category: Linux | 4 comments

Fedora 14 on Acer Aspire One (A110L)

Obsolete! Fedora 14 is now so old that it is no longer provided or supported by the Fedora Project:

I did not do a Fedora 15 version of this guide; but there is now a Fedora 16 A110 guide!

I have F14 working beautifully on my Acer Aspire A110L (that’s the original model with the really slow 8Gb SSD drive); the purpose of this article is to show how.

There are other guides out there, a lot of the info and inspirations for this article came from them, but all of them also suffer from being either outdated, or full of weirdness. Here is my attempt at something properly [... read more]

November 11th, 2010 | Tags: , | Category: Linux | 2 comments