I am using router Linksys WURT54GL and dongle WUSB54GC for my desktops. Using WEP, bacause WPA is not working on Mandriva. Even I have changed Mandriva to Ubuntu, I am too lazy to try WPA. They are working fine, no drops, Aspire One works OK. Except few things, I can not send my CBN email thru One Mail. It says “instable server”. And I can not install Citrix needed to access my office intranet. Never mind, my 3 year old daugher plays with Aspire One than I do.

Last weekend, I finally succeeded in installing Xubuntu 8.04.1 to 1GB USB stick. I downloaded Xubuntu first. And I followed instructions in this http://planet.barcamp.lv/2008/07/29/guide-how-to-install-xubintu-on-acer-aspire-one/. And I can boot my Aspire One with this USB stick. I also installed Citrix so I can connect to my office computer. Perfect.

I tried boot my Aspire One from USB. Using Puppy LInux, succeed, following instruction from Pendrivelinux.com. And I tried Xubuntu 8.04, failed. Guess have to use 8.04.01 version, but I have not tried yet. I tried Slax, following InfoLinux magazine September edition, no success. I really want to try Damn Small Linux, but I never succeed to boot DSL from my desktop PS. Don’t know why. When booting, only 1 penguin appears on the screen and then … bump, nothing happens.

Ubuntu is the most reliable linux OS, for me. My old desktop computer using Mandriva was slow accessing internet. I tried changing to Ubuntu 8.04. I think it is still slow, I am not sure …. But what is interesting is, I could install Citrix and connect to my office intranet. Before, I never succeeded to install CItrix to Ubuntu. GNOME was always crashed. A terminal appeared and I only could run commands, GUI was not working at all. That’s the reason I abandoned Ubuntu until now. The  other thing is, I installed Ubuntu on new partition and let Mandriva in my harddisk. But when booting, GRUB does not give me choice to boot from Mandriva. I don’t know why ……

I have installed Mandriva 2008 once. I liked it. Until one day, when i bought wireless device. I plugged in USB wireless device. My wireless connection was using WPA Personal. So I changed Mandrive seeting to WPA. But it did not work …… I could not connect to internet. After several days trying, the wireless connection was working with No Security (I should have done this the first time ….). Then I decided to use WEP, and Mandriva can connect to internet.

Why I use OpenSuse at home? My office has intranet that can be accessed from anywhere using Citrix. I can work from home. Unintentionally, I tried OpenSuse 10.2 LiveCD from InfoLinux magazine. I was surprised that Citrix was working out of the box. I could connect to my office intranet using Citrix without a sweat. Then I was eager to install the following OpenSuse 11.0. But suprise again, Citrix is not included in 11.0. I had to install it. It was easy, but not as easy as I thought …..

Other thing, it seemed that OpenSuse 11.0 repository was not 100% ready when it was released. I could not find Kino. I installed it from 10.2 repo. Weeks after, Kino was available in 11.0 repo.