Ground Control

Some time back I had a hand in producing some training material for a little netbook that Carphone Warehouse were releasing onto the market. The original spec was a machine with 2Gb of solid state storage running Xandros and being able to use a 3G dongle. Unfortunately the limited space on the drive caused problems and it was then released with Ubunu on an 80Gb drive. Unfortunately, the release was rushed, the software that controlled the dongle wasn't fully tested and the machine didn't have the right video drivers for Linux and after a short while the Linux machines were called back.

It's a shame really as with a decent distribution installed they run quite well under Linux.

Anyway, enough rambling, here's a link to the original material and to some material I wrote when I installed Mandriva onto one. The link will open in a seperate window.

Click here.