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I do not have an external CD/DVD reader (I’m the world’s worst geek, I collect old, outdated computer peripherals, not new ones that would actually be useful), so I needed to install Windows XP using an USB stick. Getting Windows XP installed, however, does not. Windows and Mac OS X are supported, of course, so the choice to go with Windows XP made sense. The problem is that these 3G modems are generally quite hard to get to work properly on Linux. One of the uses of the netbook is to order a 3G USB modem with a monthly subscription (very cheap in The Netherlands, no data limit) so I can visit teh internets whenever and wherever I am. The second reason has to do with 3G networking. A sad state of affairs at the university where MINIX was born (and which is still home to Andy Tanenbaum), but that’s the way it is. I need to be able to walk up to the university’s IT department, and show them my laptop whenever the wireless network doesn’t work. Mac OS X also works, but it also involves a lot of guess work. First, the wireless network on my university uses a lot of weird security fluff and certificates and other crazy stuff that doesn’t work on Linux – even on Windows it’s a major pain to set up, but at least Windows is supported and there’s a comprehensive guide. The reasons I had to switch to Windows XP are twofold. As it turns out, Firefox does a lot of writes, so it frequently hangs and hick-ups. The SSD in the Acer is the bottleneck of the device, so any application that frequently does small write operations to the hard disk can seriously bog down the entire operating system. Ubuntu was running fairly fine on the Aspire One, except for the fact that Firefox – as it turns out – is not really good when it comes to solid state drives. Due to pragmatic reasons, I’m now running Windows XP.

A few days ago, however, I realised Linux wouldn’t be ideal for me on my netbook. This version was locked-down and difficult to modify, so not too long after I installed Ubuntu, and was reasonably pleased – despite the amount of tweaking it took to get it working. A few weeks ago, I reviewed the Acer Aspire One notebook, the variant which came with an Acer-modified version of Linpus Linux.

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