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Linpus Lite on my Samsung NC20
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How to try out Linpus Linux Lite on your Samung NC20
Linux has made serious progress as a mainstream alternative to Windows XP on mini-note and ultra portable PCs in the last year or two. I thought it would be fun to try out a few of these Linux distros and see what life in the world of mobile Linux is all about. I decided to start with Linpus Linux-Lite, a custom distribution devised by Acer. How would it feel on my new Samsung NC20?
Linpus Linux is based on the ever popular Fedora Linux, developed by the Fedora Community and sponsored by RedHat. Linpus is actually developed from Fedora in Taiwan by Linpus Technologies Inc, a Taiwan based software development company. Perhaps not surprisingly, being developed in Asia, Linpus has a distinct focus on Asian languages with Unicode support for the Chinese and Japanese languages.
Linpus Lite, as the name suggests, is designed to work well with low power, affordable devices like mini-notes. Acer currently offers SKUs of the Acer Aspire One with Linpus pre-installed as an alternative to it's Windows XP machines.
So I went first of all to the Linpus website, and hey presto, on the first page was the download for the Linpus ISO file via either FTTP or torrent. I burned the disk to a CD, which is actually quite rare in today's world. The Linpus ISO was only 698MB, so easily fit on to a regular CD (700MB). Many distros today exceed 700MB and require you to use a DVD instead; Windows 7 32-bit for example is about 2.4 GBs whiel Windows Vista for example is around 4 GB!
I installed Linpus by booting my Samsung NC20 from USB DVD drive. Within moments I'm looking at the installation screen below. I chose the second option, to install Linpus Linux Lite. BTW if you simply want to take a peek Linpus you can also select to use the Live CD and simply run the OS from disk. This will let you run the OS from the CD and RAM, giving you a much more sluggish OS, but without physically changing anything on your hard drive.
After choosing where to install Linpus (I just used the first hard drive partition where I previously had my Win XP), and having to wait about 15-20 mins or so, your PC reboots and you are welcomed by a nice happy penguin! You are now in the world of mobile Linux - feel free to feel quite odd.
Continue after the break for more, including screen shots etc.....
