{"id":18,"date":"2009-10-03T20:57:02","date_gmt":"2009-10-03T20:57:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/markferry.net\/tech\/?p=18"},"modified":"2009-12-14T01:39:53","modified_gmt":"2009-12-14T01:39:53","slug":"ubuntu-netbook-remix-doesnt-just-work","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/markferry.net\/tech\/2009\/10\/03\/ubuntu-netbook-remix-doesnt-just-work\/","title":{"rendered":"Ubuntu Netbook Remix doesn&#8217;t &#8220;just work&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m five days into my trip around Thailand with the <a title=\"wikipedia\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Acer_Aspire_One\">Acer Aspire One<\/a> I purchased specially for the trip and upon which I installed a fresh copy of <a title=\"Ubuntu.com\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ubuntu.com\/GetUbuntu\/download-netbook\">Ubuntu Netbook Remix<\/a> (Jaunty).<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s been a pain in the arse the whole time.<\/p>\n<p>These are the issues so far:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>No SD card automounting<\/li>\n<li>F-spot imports to $HOME instead of the Photos folder you specify<\/li>\n<li>ath5k driver is buggy (as we know) and filled \/var\/log with crap (hooray for partitioning forethought)<\/li>\n<li>Unison doesn&#8217;t sync vfat filesystems<\/li>\n<li>Can&#8217;t switch keyboard layouts<\/li>\n<li>Firefox bookmarks manager corrupts profile<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Of course, all of these issues have either effective solutions or easy workarounds. But for joe user, or indeed linux-veteran-on-holiday, it&#8217;s not good enough.<\/p>\n<p>A solid month&#8217;s use to iron out all the kinks before departing is recommended.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m five days into my trip around Thailand with the Acer Aspire One I purchased specially for the trip and upon which I installed a fresh copy of Ubuntu Netbook Remix (Jaunty). It&#8217;s been a pain in the arse the whole time. These are the issues so far: No SD card automounting F-spot imports to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[23,24,22,21],"class_list":["post-18","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-linux","tag-bug","tag-jaunty","tag-netbook","tag-ubuntu"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/markferry.net\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/markferry.net\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/markferry.net\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/markferry.net\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/markferry.net\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/markferry.net\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22,"href":"http:\/\/markferry.net\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18\/revisions\/22"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/markferry.net\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/markferry.net\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/markferry.net\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}