De-Remixed

I dallied briefly with Ubuntu's Netbook Rremix for the Acer, but found it a little slow. This is probably more due to the fact that the Acer is one seriously low-end piece of kit than any failing on the part of Ubuntu's, but nonetheless I decided to reimage the thing.

And so it's back running the original Linpus (ghastly name) installation it came with.

With some tweaks:

• optimize grub.conf for Solid State Drives, using elevator=noop


• enabling the right-click menu from running xfce-setting-show


• turning off swap (I'm running 1.5Gb of RAM) by editing /etc/fstab


• removing the desktop search bar by commenting out all of /usr/share/search-bar/start-search_bar.sh


• removing the Fisher Price icons from the desktop by editing /usr/bin/xfdesktopnew replacing the 'desktop2' line with just plain 'desktop'. Then edit /usr/bin/xfdesktop and edit line 6 so that it executes xfdesktop-xfce


• shutting up the fan by downloading acer_ec.pl and acerfand from Jorge's amazing site. Set them executable, put them in /usr/local/bin, and add acerfand to the end of /etc/rc.d/rc.local.