Paola recently bought the Acer Aspire One.

It’s running Linpus Linux Lite, an obscure distro based on Fedora8. It has a custom user interface, but underneath it’s XFCE. The machine’s hardware is:

• Intel Atom N270 @ 1.6 GHz + 512 MB RAM
• The SouthBridge is an Intel ICH7 (82801G)
• Graphics is an Intel 945GM [8086:27ae]
• Sound is an Intel HDA [8086:27d8]
• Ethernet is a Realtek RTL8102E [10ec:8136]
• WiFi is an Atheros AR5006EG [168c:001c]
• The webcam is an Acer Crystal Eye [064e:d101] on the USB

A useful forum is http://www.aspireoneuser.com/

Some tricks:

• To open a terminal quickly, Alt+F2 and type terminal
• Following this guide you can install a little panel tool that lets you switch between the “Easy” and “Advanced” (default XFCE) environment …
• To install Pidgin, first remove libpurple.
• I haven’t yet found a way to upgrade to Firefox 3…
• Afterwards, it’s worth installing GIMP & Transmission with yum.
• With iDesk you can add icons to the XFCE desktop