Ubuntu 12.04 LTS on Acer Aspire One (AOA 150)

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Dissent
Protects Democracy
Secrecy
Promotes Tyranny
Surveillance
Undermines Liberty

A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government
Edward Abbey

Think: It's Patriotic

I have come back around to Ubuntu after a few years of Linux Mint starting with LMDE and then LM13.
My Dell Inspiron 6000 is running Ubuntu with XBMC as it's front end.
Last updated: 23 April 2013

Why did I switch to Linux? Read my Linux story.

General Hardware Specifications:

Hardware Components	Status under Linux	Notes
Intel Atom 1.6 GHz	Works	No special procedure required during installation.
8.5" CrystalBrite WSVGA	Works	No special procedure required during installation and wide screen works fine.
Integrated Intel Mobile 945GME Express Graphics Controller	Works	No special procedure required during installation.
1 GB DDR2	Works	No special procedure required during installation
120 GB Hitachi ATA Hard Drive	Works	No special procedure required during installation
Integrated Network Card	Works	No special procedure required during installation
802.11 b/g Wireless	Works	No special procedure required during installation
3 Cell Lithium Ion Batterys	Works	No special procedure required during installation
Touchpad	Works	I had to follow this procedure for it to work.
SnapStream Firefly Mini	Works	No special procedure required during installation.
Multi in 1 Card Reader	Unknown	I don't have a card to try it with
Storage Expansion Slot	Unknown	I don't have a card to try it with

This netbook is operating under Kernel version 3.5.0 (point whatever is current)

I initially started using Ubuntu 10.04 on this machine ( I had been using Ubuntu on my Dell Inspiron 6000 since January 2007.) I checked out the Ubuntu netbook release and didn't like it -- I like switching between desktops, not applications.
In 2010 when Linux Mint came out with their rolling distribution of Debian, I switched from Ubuntu to Linux Mint.
In April of 2012, my work place changed out their wireless router. For some reason, LMDE Xfce no longer connected there, while connecting everywhere else with no problem. Linux Mint 13 Xfce had just been released, and I found the wireless worked fine with this edition. Thus I switched.
In April of 2013, I switched to Ubuntu 12.04 after playing around with it on the Dell.

I always do a fresh install.
I have partitioned my hard drive with a seperate partition for the /home folder. This saves my having to copy all my personnel data back onto my computer.
For this to work your computer name and user name must be the same from the previous installation.
You need to designate /home in the partition editor but do not format it as you will lose all your data.