Ubuntu in my netbook
First of all a desclaimer. I don’t work for Ubuntu or Acer. Neither they are gonna pay me anything for writing in their favour. It is been quite a while that I have been using my Acer Aspire one netbook. I purchased it back in Jan, 2008 with windows XP home edition preloaded. I really liked the small form factor it had. And more over it was pretty much useful for a lot of document viewing, editing. But over a couple of weeks it started getting slower. It got so much slow that it use to take around 10 mins just to boot. The solution? switch to ubuntu netbook remix. I completely wiped out my hdd by removing Windows XP I started using Ubuntu. The performance difference was significant. The computer was booting faster. I even started doing things that I never expected this computer to perform. I did complete Grails development in it using NetBeans as IDE and the Grails framework installed right into it (And I still do). Even my very good friend Pradeep installed whole LAMP stack in it an