Posted by Ben Smith on Thu, Dec 24, 2009 @ 10:19 AM
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.
At #1, with a total of 543 views, is "Acer Aspire One Bag: Well, it's actually a sleeve...". This post, written at the tail end of 2008, received a bunch of traffic back in March as the Acer Aspire One was gaining momentum in the netbook market.
In 2nd place, with 289 views, is another post from the end of 2008 about the Acer Aspire One: "Fedora 10 on the Acer Aspire One is nice". This post also peaked in the spring of 2009 as folks who bought the AAO with Linpus Lite pre-installed began looking for an open-source alternative to the pared down OS.
The 3rd most popular post of the year, with a mere 151 views, was written this fall as the Windows 7 release candidate was finalized and I decided to give it a go on the Acer Aspire One: "Windows 7 on Acer Aspire One". I'm still using the release candidate on the AAO and still enjoying it. I'll switch up to a new linux distro as the end of the release candidate life cycle approaches in March 2010.
In 4th place this year we have the post that I wrote about conserving space on the Acer's 8 GB SSD: "Windows 7 Leaves Little Space on the Aspire One's 8 GB SSD".
Well, that's it for 2009, see you in...
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Posted by Ben Smith on Thu, Jun 04, 2009 @ 09:12 AM
So while my T-Mobile G1 is still running Android 1.5 (which is awesome), now I can have it look just like my Acer Aspire One desktop that runs Fedora 10.
Using dxTop and a Fedora 10 theme, I've got the best of both worlds: 1) A smartphone that kicks ass; and 2) A standard look and feel across my mobile office hardware. Check out the screen shot of my G1 to the right and the screen shot of my AAO below. They look great together!
Posted by Ben Smith on Sat, Dec 13, 2008 @ 06:04 PM
It is a thing of beauty when you can spend an hour or two completely revamping a machine and not worry about backups. The Acer Aspire One is perfect for experimenting with new operating systems! The trick is to leave the 4GB SD card alone and use it for storing things you'd rather not lose. The 8GB internal SSD is just for the OS and any other cool plugins I can find to play with.
First impression: It was very easy to get everything to work! I'll let you know more about it later this week as I get to play with it more, but it seems to boot quick, utilize all of the hardware well, and hasn't crashed yet.
Posted by Ben Smith on Thu, Dec 11, 2008 @ 08:18 PM
I've recently read an post on getting Fedora 10 up and running on the Acer Aspire One (find a link on the Mobile Technology News page.) If what is said is true, then I may get back to full hardware functionality with a full Linux distro yet.
Since I'm pretty busy here at HubSpot in Cambridge during the week I'm going to have to wait until the weekend to try it out. Check back next week to see how it went.