Re: [SLUG] live distro for Acer netbook?

[Jon Jermey <jonjermey@xxxxxxxxx>]

The main obstacle is WiFi, but I believe the Acer netbooks have a 
similar WiFi setup to the Asus eee, in which case Fedora 13 should do 
the trick. There is also a netbook version of Puppy Linux that I was 
able to activate WiFi with. Ubuntu 10.4 and Mint would not recognise the 
wireless card on my Asus eee 1005 despite my following several sets of 
complicated instructions. Nor would several other distros -- I seem to 
remember Moblin was one of them.

If you use Windows on the netbook to download and install LinuxLive USB 
Creator, that makes it much easier to create and trial bootable USB 
sticks or cards -- http://www.linuxliveusb.com.

Jon.

On 05/10/10 08:18, Voytek Eymont wrote:
> a daughter of a friend asked me if it's possible to run applications from
> a USB memory stick; I asked her what was it that she wants to run, she
> told me 'cygwin, to run some c code'
>
> I said 'why don't you boot your Acer netbook from a Linux on SD media
>
> now what is asking what Linux should she get ?
>
> so, what distro should I suggest for a uni student to 'run some c code' on
> an Acer netbook ?
>
> I did a brief search, came across Moblin, is that a good choice ?