Re: [PLUG] Question on stable LINUX for Aspire one

That's a good reason to try out live cds since you can review how they perform- install from there if you like what you see and how it runs. I still recommend Lubuntu (Ubuntu + LXDE desktop) since the LXDE environment is designed for lightweight system builds. You could also go with Arch Linux and then add the LXDE desktop. I use it on servers if I need a gui.

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From: "john boris" <jborissr@gmail.com>
To: "Philadelphia Linux User's Group Discussion List" <plug@lists.phillylinux.org>
Sent: Wednesday, October 28, 2015 10:26:30 AM
Subject: Re: [PLUG] Question on stable LINUX for Aspire one

This unit is basically something for me to have on a trip when baggage is tight. I am not going to run any VMs on it. Just use it to log into my VPN for $WORK, check some things on the net, use a sniffer on a network etc. It is small enough and lite enough for those purposes. It only has 2gb of RAM and a small Hard Drive. The processor is not beefy.

On Wed, Oct 28, 2015 at 10:22 AM, Keith C. Perry <kperry@daotechnologies.com> wrote:

Ok, you probably just need manually need re-install the boot sectors and attempt the release upgrade again.

There is info on how to do that but since you don't care about whats on the system you might as well get the Lubuntu 14.04 LTS iso and do a clean install.

You may want to check out a couple of distributions via their Live CDs to see what interests you now.

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On Oct 28, 2015 10:09, john boris <jborissr@gmail.com> wrote:
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> I did an update of the packages for the current version and it went oksy. Then it had an upgrade to 14.04 (I think that was the version) so I figured why not. It went through its paces for quite a while and then it froze and rebooted. When it rebooted it could not find a filesystem and dropped into maintenance mode. So I figured it was best to start over with a clean install.
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> On Wed, Oct 28, 2015 at 10:06 AM, Keith C. Perry <kperry@daotechnologies.com> wrote:
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>> I would probably still try to load Lubuntu 14.04 LTS on it but when you say the Ubuntu update went south, what does that mean? Can you give more detail?
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>> KP-
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>> On Oct 28, 2015 09:57, john boris <jborissr@gmail.com> wrote:
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>> > Good Day,
>> > I have an Aspire One netbook that had ubuntu 12.04 on it. It was sitting idle for a long time and I decided to fire it up and update it. Well the update went south and I now have to reload the OS. No problem as it was really only used a device for the Living room (prior to the iPad and Tablet world). I am looking for the recommendations as tothe most stable version, or best suited, for that device.
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>> > I use it rarely but I want to have a lightweight device I can use on travel in a pinch. I have to buy a new battery for it so before I do that I want to make sure I can reload it. I bought this unit used with Ubuntu installed but always had an issue with the unit going to sleep (freezing) for a few seconds on a regular basis which lead me to believe some driver was not fully compatible.
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>> > The unit has the memory maxed out.
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>> > Thanks in Advance.
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