Re: GNAT & GPS on Linpus Linux

["Brian Gaffney" <brianDOTgaffney@myrealbox.com>]

I have an eeePC 900 (9" screen).  It comes with Xandros, but I don't use 
that much, so haven't looked into installing too much on it.  But I do have 
Ubuntu installed on an SD card, with GNAT installed.  I have had no problems 
with that (I don't use GPS, etc.).

There are several eee-specific Ubuntu (and other) distributions.  What I did 
was added an eee-specific repository and installed a few packages, including 
an optimized kernal.  I haven't found anything that doesn't work on it. 
(The only problem with the way I installed was that I needed to use an 
ethernet cable until I had installed the unique packages - it was just 
easier.)

"Alex R. Mosteo" <alejandro@mosteo.com> wrote in message 
news:740moaF119la3U1@mid.individual.net...
> gautier_niouzes@hotmail.com wrote:
>
>> Hello,
>> I am about to buy a mini-laptop with the Linpus operating system
>> installed, which is a variety of Linux if I understand well.
>> Did someone have experiences with GNAT and GPS (GPL) on such a beast ?
>> Any advice about which version / distro / whatever to use ?
>> I have close to zero experience with Linux and would like to keep the
>> maintenance to the minimum - in order to keep enough time for
>> programming :-).
>
> Perhaps you refer to an Acer Aspire One, which comes with linpus (I have
> one). I don't like the linpus variant (is an old Fedora 8 with some custom
> packages that prevent proper use of the full F8 repos), but I still keep 
> it
> because I love the ultra-fast boot. However, if some day it breaks, I will
> go for either eeebuntu or the ubuntu netbook remix variants. I've read 
> that
> most hardware in the aa1 is functional with these, barring some minor
> things.
>
> To your question: never tried to install gnat on linpus, but certainly it
> works on ubuntu, and you can get ubuntu running on the aa1 with relative
> ease (although if you have the 512M ram version it can be a real problem. 
> It
> will boot to desktop okay, but once you open a firefox and something else 
> it
> will be a lazy dog. And gnat/gcc can require some good memory sometimes).
>
> OTOH, once you break out of the default linpus gui, with yum you can 
> install
> a great deal of F8 packages, which may allow for gnat on linpus. Never
> tried, though.
>
> However you say you have little linux experience, and I'm afraid that in 
> any
> case you'll need some initial tinkering for any of the options to succeed.
> So brace yourself... ;)
>
> Some links:
>
> https://help.ubuntu.com/community/AspireOne
> http://www.eeebuntu.org/
> http://www.canonical.com/projects/ubuntu/unr
>