I know very little about Linux but I found a distribution called Puppy Linux which can load the entire operating system into RAM which sounds perfect for the Acer Aspire One!

Getting it looking half decent on the other hand and getting the hardware working is not as simple as you might think.

Here are some patches, drivers & fixes I have found which should get Puppy Linux working correctly on the little Aspire.

I recently treated myself to a little Acer Aspire One netbook. Its a great little piece of kit but after I eventually installed Windows XP on there I noticed it crawls! This is because the SSD has terribly slow write speeds. You can get around this by making a few tweaks to XP so I have outlined the steps I took to improve things. This should help with any other netbooks that have a cheap slow SSD drive as well. Good luck!

This is how to work out which firmware version you have on your Samsung phone. This info was taken from the gsmhosting.com forums.

If you have tried to run Drupal (or any other PHP app) & Roundcube on the same MySQL database you may have run in to some problems. I certainly did. Roundcube appears to configure fine but when you go to log in you receive a 'Service Unavailable error'. This is because Roundcube cannot create the tables required as they already exist. You can get around this problem by adding a prefix to the start of the Roundcube tables in the mysql-initial.sql file and then running the .sql file in PHPMyAdmin to add the required tables.

If you haven't used Synergy it is a great utility for using one keyboard and mouse with two computers and two displays by just moving the mouse from one screen to the other. Even better its supported on Mac Os X, Windows and Linux. I use it daily between a Mac and Windows machine.

It hadn't been updated for a few years but it has now been forked and is gradually getting updated. Below you can find the latest available builds.

Synergy Plus

http://code.google.com/p/synergy-plus/

SynergyKM

http://sourceforge.net/projects/synergykm/

How to update your Synergy binaries

This information is taken mostly from GSM-Forum.com, but I have compiled all the information myself and updated it with links for software and other information. Enjoy!

A couple of things you need to know first.

DISCLAIMER
This guide has been taken from several sources. Please do not blame me if anything goes wrong. Following these instructions has worked fine for me but I cannot guarantee it will work the same for you.

Make sure to backup all the content on your phone as everything will be deleted including your address book!

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