Fedora 17; Hot Dog!
Quick first impressions.installed Fedora 17 on an older 1024x600 netbook
stats:
- Acer Aspire 1 (black with the wavy cover)
- dual core hyper-threaded Intel atom N570
- 1 Gig Ram
- Intel integrated graphics Pineview GM, 1024x600
- WiFi recognized without a problem
installed: default gnome, 32 bit version.
OS history:
Previously was running Fedora 16, installed from a live usb stick;
then ran preupgrade to 17.
Process ran without issue; did take a long time:
I'm guessing that it would be faster to just re-install OS, keeping my /home directory.
First impressions:
seems a bit quicker;
new Gnome not too different;
one annoyance/ limitation:
some dialogs do not fit on this older system with the 600 pixel screen... could not see the bottom of some of the setup dialogs.
In a region with too many wifi networks, my VPN is off the bottom (again screen limitation?)
todo:
find a "netbook" skin for gnome; that is designed for the smaller screen.
Further notes:
(this entry will be updated a few times)
Power management
working. I can suspend and resume, and mouse, wireless, screen all recover.
on this older system, resume is in seconds; have not measured, would say no more than 5...
two finger mouse
working with this laptop; tried it briefly; then turned it off;
I do like and use the "scroll on right side" but I'm not using two finger moves yet.
-I still prefer a mouse, if I have the desk space.
External screen
working.
older laptop has VGA only, fedora picked it up. Tried dual monitor support;
the screen UI picked up both, but only set external to maximum of 1024x768
could not configure for higher...
Sound?
working; is a netbook with small speakers that are not loud.
Video Camera?
this may be an issue;
Skype, and SugarOS did seem to lock on using the Camera a few times;
now seems ok; I have updated to current levels kernel: 3.4.0-1.fc17.i686
SugarOS
working great, only the odd lockup with video camera
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