This new interface looks awesome! Also many people report boots below 10 seconds on standard hardware!

I have recently upgraded my AAO to Leopard and am quite happy with it. Unfortunately my MacBook thinks it’s a Mac Pro and shows the icon accordingly in my shares list. It’s a small detail, but I don’t like it. I have created a small icon to solve this problem.

The following will change the Mac Pro icon of your AAO on the client side and as a consequence all Mac Pro’s will show as an AAO.. All instructions are to be followed on your other macs running Leopard, not on the Acer. (blank line means end of command, so two lines below each other are part of the same command)
1. Download the icon.zip as attached to this post. Unzip the file manually if needed.
2. Open the terminal and enter the following commands.

mv ~/Downloads/icon/Acer\ Icon.icns ~/Downloads/icon/com.apple.AAO.icns

sudo cp ~/Downloads/icon/com.apple.AAO.icns /System/Library/CoreServices/CoreTypes.bundle/Contents/Resources/

cd /System/Library/CoreServices/CoreTypes.bundle/Contents/Resources/

sudo cp com.apple.macpro.icns com.apple.macpro.icns.bak

sudo cp com.apple.AAO.icns com.apple.macpro.icns

3. Reboot

Please be careful with the commands in the Terminal: if you don’t understand what you’re doing you might be at risk! 

Icon.zip

With the help of (mostly?) the aspireoneuser.com community Leak has created a new kernel and the bootchart is quite promising to say the least!

Kuki Bootchart

After you’ve installed TinyXP you might be interested in installing the following additional software:

• Google Chrome, perfect for small screens
• The latest AA1FanControl to make sure your BIOS is supported
• EEE Rotate makes it easy to read PDF files by rotating your screen direction
• KMPlayer, this lightweight video player is the only player that allows me play 720p video perfectly
• VCdControlTool, extremely small .iso mounter by Microsoft

Let us know if you have more suggestions!

Just in: Kuki Linux Alpha 2 has released. More info here. 

I’ve installed this Alpha just now and tried a few things. The main reason I’m interested in a customized version of Ubuntu is performance. To me the two most prominent factors of performance are boot time and battery life. Unfortunately Kuki hasn’t impressed me yet: boot time was about 55 seconds and battery life was estimated at 2 hours (without Wifi). Both are worse than a standard Ubuntu install tweaked for the AAO.  Luckily the bootchart of Alpha 2.1 shows an improvement in boot time. I’m very interested in the next release and hopefully the performance will be improved soon!

The installer partitions the SSD by defaults as ext3, which I hope in the future will be changed to ext2. Here are some screenshots from the official website.

The Aspire One doesn’t have its own Ubuntu derived distribution yet. One attempt, OneLinux, was unfortunately cancelled a few days ago. Luckily there is a new project and it looks very promising so far! It’s called Kuki (pronounced as cookie) and it’s an Ubuntu minimal install with OpenBox as window manager. Just a few days ago they released Alpha 1, with the lovely code name ‘Amicable Amarettini’. The install image is only 300MB. It’s not newbie proof yet, but hopefully it will be in the next releases! A second Alpha is going to be announced soon, so keep an eye on kuki.me .

Midori-Keep in mind this is just for gaming and if your looking for a speedy version of xp slimmed your best bet is to use ron’s Tiny XP

The post below is taken straight from the original poster if you have problems with installing this or getting it all to work just PM Midori at Aspireoneuser.com and i will be more then happy to help you solve your problem or anwser your questions

GodlyXP is a new type of variant, it’s completely different to all these gamer editions and speed editions, this my friends is in a league of it’s own, it’s neo-bone’s, basically it’s got all the crap Microsoft apps unneeded removed, as you can see it only needs around 20mb’s of ram to run unlike other OS’s in this community which require around 80mb’s or more! everything is still compatible and working, wireless internet works, games work, all media works! heck I even added a few drivers (feel free to remove those ) GodlyXP outperforms EVERY windows xp released, fact. and without loss of needed things, This was created by the masterful exploiter, Shaun (AKA Cloud/Godfromdfo) he (or I) has given everyone in the internet community (and real life) to share this 100% legit variant of Windows XP Professional SP3! (SP3, final build, by Microsoft of course!) There are a few things I disabled on purpose (which you can re-enable) such as automatic updates and such, simply go to services.msc and enable them if you want to, however there are no updates left t download.. GodlyXP is fully updated, Genuine, no Serial required (GodlyXP is legal only if you change the serial later.. which you don’t need to do, however it may be a good idea)I could write a list of things I removed and what tweaks have been done to the registry hives, however I feel no need to.

http://rapidshare.com/files/142877620/G0dly.X0P_downarchive.part1.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/142878371/G0dly.X0P_downarchive.part2.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/142878644/G0dly.X0P_downarchive.part3.rar

I’ve been looking for a Tiger install DVD for the Aspire One for a while as Leopard’s footprint is a bit too big for the One (6,9GB vs 4GB). Unfortunately the releases I tried (JaS, XxX, Kalyway, etc) didn’t boot.. Now finally I have found one! It’s a release of 10.4.5 and I’m installing as I type. I’ll update this post as soon as I get some results!

Here is a link to a site with more info on this release.

Update after the break

After booting into the system (which seemed quicker than Leopard on the AAO), I tried to install the RTGMac v 2.0.0 driver to get ethernet working. That turned out to be a bad idea, as it gave me kernel panics when booting. Even safe mode and single user mode didn’t work any more.

This release does not have the correct UVC driver and PS2 driver, which means webcam and touchpad and keyboard do not work correctly after install. These drivers should be copied from another release. I have tried the PS2controller.kext from another release and it works fine, you can download it here. 

The instructions for Leopard (described here) are not working in Tiger, so no audio, video and ethernet support for now..

What’s not working (long list )

• Ethernet
• Webcam
• Airport
• Sound
• Native resolution / QE / CI
• Sleep
• Card reader

Lot of work to do!
Apparently the Atom chip is correctly recognized!

Screenshot Tiger on AAO

Petaramesh has a 2.6.27 kernel for Ubuntu customized for the Aspire One. His weblog is in French though and many have trouble finding the downloads. So here I have the direct links.

Headers Ubuntu Aspire One 2.6.27-a1sp011

Kernel Ubuntu Aspire One 2.6.27-a1sp011

Config Kernel Ubuntu Aspire One 2.6.27-a1sp011 (not necessary for installing .deb’s)

sudo dpkg -i –force-overwrite linux-image-2.6.27-a1sp011_2.6.27-a1sp011-10.00.Custom_i386.deb linux-headers-2.6.27-a1sp011_2.6.27-a1sp011-10.00.Custom_i386.deb

http://petaramesh.org/post/2008/08/24/Noyau-Ubuntu-custom-pour-Acer-Aspire-One

Please pay attention: there is currently only ONE version of Ron’s image: Rev09. Any reference to Rev02 is a typo. Please search this page with over 750 posts before asking anything: most likely you will find your answer..
Ron has created an image of his Tiny XP installation customized for the Acer Aspire One and includes all the specific drivers, fan control software and Office. Ron’s image and the necessary tools can be found at this torrent: http://thepiratebay.org/torrent/4670099/Ron_s_TinyXP_image_for_Aspire_One.

Install instructions are posted after the break, but are also included in the archive.

Password of the rar files is Ron[nl].

[update]

The megaupload link will soon expire. Ron has decided not to renew this link and feels that all issues about this image has been discussed in these comments before. I’m sure you can find the image through other resources on the internet! The comment section will stay open.

Ron’s comment

TinyXP for Acer Inspire One (100A/8GB SSD/1.536MB RAM) by Ron[nl]

====================================================

The included files are:

1) unetbootin-windows-275.exe: a tool to install FreeDOS to make your USB stick bootable.

2) ghost.exe: a program that runs in FreeDOS to write the diskimage to your SSD.

3) TINYXPAAO.GHO: This is a diskimage of a clean install of TinyXP.

The diskimage contains:

- a clean install of TinyXP rev 02 09

- tweaks to run faster and save the SSD as much as possible

- all drivers for the hardware to function

- AA1 Fancontrol to adjust the temperature for the fan to start

- MS Office 2003 (WORD/Excel/Outlook/Powerpoint)

- MS Outlook connector (hotmail/msn/live.com)

- Firefox (IE not installed)

- Windows Media Player 9

- all is in English

What is needed for a succcesful use of the image:

- Bootable USB stick (1GB is enough)

- Acer Aspire One 100A: 512MB – 1.5GB RAM / 8GB SSD

- A windows machine with internet connecion to prepare the USB stick for the AAO

- 20 minutes

Step by step instruction:

01) extract files 1 – 3 to your windows desktop.

02) format your USB stick with FAT (not FAT32) and leave it in the usb port.

03) run “unetbootin-windows-275.exe” by double click on the file -> RUN.

04) Select Distribution -> FreeDOS 1.0

05) check of Type: = USB Drive and that (IMPORTANT!) Drive: shows letter of the USB Stick.

06) hit the OK button and wait till program says REBOOT or EXIT -> EXIT to close program.

07) browse to the USB stick (start -> my computer -> click USB Drive.

08) copy GHOST.EXE to the USB stick

09) make a new folder (right click -> new ->folder) on the stick (i.e. IMAGE)

10) copy TINYXPAAO.GHO to the folder created in 09).

Congratulation: Your USB stick is ready for the AAO.

WARNING: 1st back up all the files you like to keep, the image will overwrite the total SSD!

11) put the USB stick into the AAO (the image takes care of format the SSD correctly)

12) start the AAO and hit F2 or F12 and make the USB stick first in the boot sequence.

13) when the USB sticks boot choos “default” in the 1st screen.

14) next screen choose option 1:Install to harddisk using FreeDOS SETUP (default).

15) when after an error and beep you see A:\>

16) type “c:” then [ENTER] (c: is the drive letter from the USB stick)

17) type “ghost” then [ENTER] (the program ghost starts)

18) hit 2x the OK button to open the menu.

19) your mouse doesn’t work in ghost cause no drivers installed. Use TAB/ARROWS and [ENTER].

20) choose LOCAL -> DISK -> FROM IMAGE then hit [ENTER].

21) CHOOSE FROM: select the folder made in point 09).

22) select the TINYXP.GHO -> open then hit [ENTER].

23) CHOOS LOCAL DESTINATION: select your SSD drive (part 2/size 7695) the hit [ENTER].

24) select OK then hit [ENTER]

25) select YES then hit [ENTER]

26) Sit back and wait till Ghost tells you the operation was succesful.

27) Reboot the system and enjoy!!!!!!!!!!!

Ron[nl]