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I recommend you install the yum-fastestmirror and the yum-presto plugins. These will enable yum to search for the fastest mirror and the deltarpm (presto) support for 70-90% smaller downloads for updates.

That's a bummer. I've done 3 flawless installs on three different machines including my eeepc 1000he and a Thinkpad x61s (so both 32 bit and 64 bit versions) and have not encountered that. I have to say that I find Fedora 11 to be quite impressive.

Woot.com is selling an eee. Asus Eee PC 900 Netbook with 1.6GHz Atom Processor $169.99 - + $5 shipping *Specifications:* - Operating System: GNU Linux - Display: 8.9" Display, 1024×600 resolution - LCD Type: LED Backlit - Intel CPU & Chipset: Intel(R) Atom N270 1.6GHz - Hard Drive: 4GB Solid State D...

I actually thought it was pretty funny and in a way I am glad Leo called out Mike Arrington. Mike is kind of a blowhard.

Fair enough, although I said I had not seen the presentation and so it seemed to me (perhaps incorrectly) we branched the discussion out to talk about "where Linux is going" in a general sense notwithstanding what Bryan said or didn't say. At least that's what was going through my mind. His presenta...

TimeWarner drops metering plan, at least for the time being:

http://www.computerworld.com/action/art ... ws_ts_head

Here is what the new, possibly temporary, logo looks like:

He was just in ##slackware on freenode and hinted that the "flippy" logo that everyone hated was a bad joke. He's put the old logo up again but with a very slight twist -- it says "classic" in the bottom line: http://slackware.com/ I think this one is not staying long either. I think he's going back...

Hey everyone... I am going to get my wife an automotive GPS for her birthday in October and need some recommendations. I want the unit to work under Linux, of course, since I might pull the data off it myself. I would prefer an automotive GPS that attaches to the dash or windshield. I also would lik...

All the reports I have read seem to indicate the 6 cell, 160GB HD version is Windows XP only.

http://www.aspireoneuser.com/2008/08/22 ... a150-1447/

I would agree with Ken. I can't tell if it's one speaker or two, but they are acceptable, if a little tinny, to me given the size of the machine and it's intended use. They are not great speakers or anything like that, but acceptable.

Chess, Does Linpus Linux have a retard mode on by default like the EEEPC? Yes, it has a simplified interface that is enabled by default but it just sits on top of a regular Xfce desktop with the regular Xfce right-click menu turned off. All you need to do to turn on the Xfce right-click menu is do ...

Figures they would drop the price just after I buy one. :/ FWIW, the main user site for the Aspire One is http://www.aspireoneuser.com. There are some great forums, tutorials, howto's, etc. OSNews.com has also run some recent reviews and stories about the Aspire One. I've been using mine a lot while...

Here is a test screenshot of the Acer Aspire One webcam:



Vacations are great.

I thought I'd give a mini review of my new Acer Aspire One. After hearing Dann go on and on about his eeepc :-) I have been looking at getting one myself. However, I also read about the new Acer Aspire One, which is another of these UMPC's that are all over the place. The Acer sells for about $375 t...