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Trying Fedora 10 on the Aspire One

I was using the Ubuntu Netbook Remix for a while. I can say that it suited all my needs and was very efficient about using space. I didn’t have to customize any of the appearance settings at all; it just worked. I think the only downside of my using UNR was my choice of using a lpia kernel and some difficulties in working out getting updates. I’m an Apple fanboy, so not having everything perfect out of the box made things a little trying at times. One of my favorite things about my Apples is that they come out of sleep immediately. Because of this, I don’t care much about boot times.

UNR came out of suspend fairly quick, but I noticed that over a span of days the battery would be depleted. I needed hibernate to be able to keep my battery charge and get back to what I was doing. So, I’m now moving on to Fedora 10 to see how well it performs in this regard.

After my installation last night, my first attempt at hibernating was a fail. It sent me back to the login screen. Suspend worked fine. I wondered if it was because I didn’t have swap space. I tried it again this morning, and the hibernate worked! So, I need to see if it’s a sporadic thing or something resolved itself.

Right now, the AAO is going through its system update. It sure is taking a long time …

I just realized that there is a separate Fedora 10 KDE iso file. One reason I wanted to try F10 out yesterday was because my coworker mentioned that KDE 4.2 just came out. In the Aspire One forums, KDE was mentioned as the faster booting desktop manager, so I think I’m wasting my time right now updating the system. I think it’ll be cleaner to install the KDE version as a default rather than installing KDE on top of the GNOME version.

I suppose I should check to see what version of KDE Fedora 10 is. I highly doubt it’s got KDE 4.2 yet since it just came out yesterday. Maybe I’ll just play with GNOME until I can get a F10 download with the latest KDE.