[Pan-users] Re: compile?

[Duncan]

"Travis" <address@hidden> posted
address@hidden, excerpted below, on  Sun, 07
Dec 2008 17:37:44 -0800:

> In Windows I can over clock to 2.008 GHz.  It has 2GB RAM and a 160 GB
> 5400 rpm HDD. It came with a 80 GB HDD.  I installed the Asus Xandros on
> the original HDD just because I could. I installed Ubuntu via Wubi on my
> netbook, current desktop and my old desktop.  I had one of the original
> 700 series Eee PC's (702 8 GB SSD) but sold it when I got my new Eee PC.
> Computers to me are just entertaining toys.  Never used one in a work
> situation.

FWIW, mine's an Acer Aspire One, 150L version.  I had to order it from 
Canada since the only 150s that seem to be available in the US are the 
150Xs, with eXPrivacy, where the 150Ls have Linux.  There's lots of the 
110Ls available, but I wanted the 150L.

As yours it's Intel Atom 270 (1.6 GHz IIRC, Intel's only shipping the one 
at this point, anyway), but the AA1s come with 512 MB onboard (soldered 
on) and an expansions slot that will take up to a gig more.  The 
eXPrivacy versions apparently ship with a second half gig in the 
expansion slot for a gig total, but I bought the standard half gig and a 
full gig stick separately and installed that myself.  So I have it maxed 
out at 1.5 gig.  To do a full 2 gig on it, I'd have to replace the direct-
soldered on-board half-gig, and that's not my thing.

The original AA1 110s come with an 8 gig SSD, non-standard IDE/ZIF ribbon 
interface, instead of a regular hard drive.  However, my primary use will 
be as an MP3 player, that's also a netbook, and for quite some time I've 
wanted a good 100-gig plus MP3 player, so the 8 gig SSD wasn't going to 
cut it.  Unfortunately, the onboard SATA interface wasn't enabled for the 
110s.

The AA1 150s came with a 120 gig 2.5" standard SATA interface drive, 
which was fine for my needs, tho I've thought about upgrading it to a 120 
gig SATA SSD like the SuperTalent Newegg had for $500-some last time I 
looked, or a higher capacity standard spinning 2.5" -- AFAIK they're 
available in half-TB capacities now.

But I'm going to play around with the 120 gig for awhile and see how it 
works, stick Gentoo on it, etc, before deciding on a drive upgrade.  The 
only problem was I had only the single main computer before that, so I 
had to get a router to allow me to share the Internet connection, then 
read up on the various firmware alternatives and eventually choose 
OpenWRT, then read up on it further and figure out how it works, install 
it, install additional packages as desired, get everything configured... 
etc.

Then I got that done, but realized I have to get thru with a different 
project on my main machine, or give up and rearrange my RAID and LVM 
setup, in ordered to have room to setup the 32-bit chroot to install a 32-
bit Gentoo to on the big machine (which runs 64-bit Gentoo/~amd64 as its 
main OS), for all the compiling and stuff.  That's where I am now...  
Once I get that done and actually have a place to put the 32-bit Gentoo 
chroot on the main machine, I expect it'll go pretty fast.  But that 
could be a few months...

No worries tho, because as with you it's just a hobby altho I probably 
spend more time on it than you do, so if it takes 2 hours or 2 years, or 
even never, as long as I'm enjoying doing it, it's all good! =:^)

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