http://www.eeph.com/~james dog walking, campfire cooking, & fine metrology Mon, 29 Nov 2010 04:00:23 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en The stock install of UNR on my Acer Aspire ZG5 using a 4GB thumb drive was certainly an improvement over the stock XP. I began to wonder what kind of tweaks could be done to make it even better. In the past I have used ReiserFS to good effect, but it ... http://www.eeph.com/~james/2009/09/26/tuning-ubuntu-netbook-remix-for-ssd/% Back in Feb. 2009 I got an Acer Aspire ZG5 on sale at Fry's. It's the XP Home version, 8GB SSD, 1G RAM. For minimal usage it did the trick, but as I began to use it more, I chafed at the slow SSD. I found various tricks on the ... http://www.eeph.com/~james/2009/09/03/acer-aspire-zg5/% ubuntu netbook remix is the best linux yet. I'm trying it on an Acer Aspire ZG5 ( 1GB RAM 8GB SSD) using two thumb drives -- one for the 1GB UNR image, and and the other to install upon. Windows XP rests undisturbed on the internal SSD, but that may ... http://www.eeph.com/~james/2009/09/02/ubuntu-netbook-remix/%