New ultralight laptops are popping up everywhere and it is delightful that they are running GNU/Linux, demystifying an operating system that is perfect for these laptops, as well as their bulkier relatives. According to Free Software Magazine, Acer’s model joins the fray running Linpus Linux Lite.
It [Linpus] runs on a very low specification (CPUs as low as 366MHZ, memory as low as 128MBs of RAM and 512MBs of disk space) which may be why it was chosen (and the ability to switch at a one
icon click from Easy Mode to a full KDE 3.5 desktop is something Asus should have included from the off without relying on the Unix community to do it for them). Boot time is approximately fifteen seconds and Acer claim that Linpus Lite can extend battery life by twenty percent on software developed under the Moblin Project.
Where do these distro names come from? Anyways, other resources:
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