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I've had some time now to evaluate Ubuntu NBR on my Acer Aspire One and I've come to a simple simple conclusion...

Everything appeared to be working fine after installing Ubuntu Netbook Remix on my Acer Aspire One...

Whenever I rebuild my netbook, I have to go through the arduous process of getting the software tools that make this little computer a little more fun to use.  After a Windows install, I've got to run around the internet to find apps like Google Chrome, Firefox, OpenOffice, the GIMP, a lite twitter client, etc.  A lot of times I hit up download.com (cnet's download center) to look for interesting apps to try.  More often than not, I end of with something that doesn't meet my needs and the uninstall is more painful than finding the crapplication was.  I say...NO MORE!!!

Well, my days of the using the free Windows 7 Release Candidate are over...I hate getting messages telling me that my computers going to shut down if I don't give M$ some money.

Well, it's Christmas Eve and the end of the year is upon us.  In case you missed them, I've decided to recap the top 4 posts this year based on traffic.  I can easily tell which posts have gotten the most traffic using my HubSpot Blog Analytics.

Last week I wrote about some of the ways I save space on the Acer Aspire One running Windows 7.  This weekend I did a little digging to find out where the space went and found a cheap, simple tweak to reclaim 1.2 GB of my 8 GB SSD.

One question my friends ask when they see me with my Acer Aspire One netbook is: What can you really do with a computer that small?  The answer is usually: Most of what you can do with your big honking laptop.  

Whenever you connect to a WiFi network in Windows 7 for the first time, Windows asks you what type of network you're joining.  Your options are:

A few weeks ago I wrote about my easy installation and first impressions of Windows 7 on an Acer Aspire One, and after a couple of weeks with this as my primary mobile machine, I thought you might like to know how it's going.

A week ago, Microsoft stopped allowing the download of the Release Candidate for Windows 7.  I took the opportunity to download the RC image so I could give it a workout on my Acer Aspire One.  Here's a recap of my install experience and my initial impressions.