Anyone running F11 on a Dell mini ? (Or another mini ?)

[Rick Stevens]

Frank Cox wrote:
> On Wed, 14 Oct 2009 12:12:52 -0700
> Rick Stevens wrote:
> 
>> Linuxguy123 wrote:
>>> How is it working for you ?
>> I run it on an Acer Aspire One.  Works fine.
> 
>  *blink*  Is THAT what he meant by minicomputer?  How could you possibly call
> something like that a mini?  "See my tractor-trailer rig" and I show you a
> Honda Civic with trailer hitch?

Well, I'm assuming that's what s/he meant.  I, too, am of the old school
where "mainframes" were S/370s, Sigmas and the like; "minis" were
PDP-11s, Vaxen, Novas and their ilk; and "micros" were anything smaller.
With "laptops", "portables" and "netbooks", the lines are even fuzzier.

>>  Don't use it much, the
>> display is somewhat small for my old eyes and the keyboard is a but
>> tight for my hands, but it works perfectly--including audio.
> 
> I love my Acer Aspire One; it's great for what I use it for (reading books and
> network testing, mostly).  The keyboard is indeed too small to do any real
> typing on, though.

And the touchpad can be a bit too sensitive.  But then, I'm a big oaf.

>> Only complaint is that it won't light up the WLAN LED, but WLAN works
>> well.
> 
> My wireless indicator led magically started working a couple of kernel updates
> ago.

Hmmm.  Mine still hasn't.  I did do a big-arsed update a couple of days
ago, but I haven't rebooted the machine since then.  Perhaps it will
work now.
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