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acer aspire one netbook
by Rich on Mon Nov 24, 2008 6:10 pm
ive bought my daughter one of these for Christmas it uses Linux lite does anyone know if i can install msn messenger on it for her and if so how
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Re: acer aspire one netbook
by Sir-Doris on Mon Nov 24, 2008 6:20 pm
I would say go to microsoft website and see if there is a linux version. I doubt it though.Best bet would be to do a google search for linux and msn messenger.
I found this one: http://kmess.org/
Linux is a completely different operating system to Windows although there is quite a bit of software available for it now and most, if not all of it is freeware.
I found this one: http://kmess.org/
Linux is a completely different operating system to Windows although there is quite a bit of software available for it now and most, if not all of it is freeware.
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Re: acer aspire one netbook
by Rich on Mon Nov 24, 2008 7:06 pm
cheers paul i will give it a go
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Re: acer aspire one netbook
by Sir-Doris on Mon Nov 24, 2008 8:10 pm
Who is Paul? 
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Re: acer aspire one netbook
by weave67 on Mon Nov 24, 2008 8:15 pm
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by Road Hog on Mon Nov 24, 2008 8:18 pm
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Re: acer aspire one netbook
by Rich on Mon Nov 24, 2008 8:35 pm
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Re: acer aspire one netbook
by Sir-Doris on Mon Nov 24, 2008 9:41 pm
Rich!!!
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Re: acer aspire one netbook
by meooo on Mon Nov 24, 2008 10:13 pm
sid
What have I told you about Thinking Erroll??
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Re: acer aspire one netbook
by Alchamist on Tue Nov 25, 2008 8:20 am
You can get Pidgin messenger to run on it, which will connect to all the main messenger programs in one application.
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Re: acer aspire one netbook
by Rich on Tue Nov 25, 2008 9:45 am
cheer jay another one for me to try
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Re: acer aspire one netbook
by firestars88 on Tue Nov 25, 2008 11:50 am
Its going to be a real pig for you to install MSN over Linux.
As above, you can install Pidgin but thats not always the most reliable method. You may also see some plug-and-play items (such as MP3 players, Mobile Broadband dongles etc) will not work until you mess about with Drivers and settings.
If you can, return it for either an XP model or change it for an Asus (which is similar to the one you have and they start at £149)
As above, you can install Pidgin but thats not always the most reliable method. You may also see some plug-and-play items (such as MP3 players, Mobile Broadband dongles etc) will not work until you mess about with Drivers and settings.
If you can, return it for either an XP model or change it for an Asus (which is similar to the one you have and they start at £149)
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Re: acer aspire one netbook
by Rich on Tue Nov 25, 2008 12:18 pm
i am toying with the idea of installing xp on it myself its got 1gb of ram and a 120gb hard drive so i dont think i will have a problem
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Re: acer aspire one netbook
by firestars88 on Tue Nov 25, 2008 12:30 pm
You can do that, you have plenty of space, although its taken 6 IP engineers over 2 weeks to have everything working on it, bloody thing just did not want to know!
Best of luck.
Best of luck.
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Re: acer aspire one netbook
by Alchamist on Tue Nov 25, 2008 12:50 pm
Of course, you could just use the msn web messenger ... http://webmessenger.msn.com/
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Re: acer aspire one netbook
by Drift on Tue Nov 25, 2008 12:54 pm
The linux man will not be beaten
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Re: acer aspire one netbook
by Rich on Tue Nov 25, 2008 5:39 pm
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Re: acer aspire one netbook
by firestars88 on Tue Nov 25, 2008 5:51 pm
For starters only certain types of 3g Mobile broadband dongle can be used. This is the same for other mobile broadband packages. Google for it and you will see the problems that people have faced.
Connecting to 3g mobiles / blackberrys / Nokia N96 - issues galore
Storage devices - issues
Plug and play digital cameras - took us 4 hours.
This was before we installed XP on a Linux machine and given the choice again, the owner would have certainly gone down the windows route first time off.
Dont think that we are Joe Bloggs sitting at home having problems, we were on a night shift monitoring/repairing the complete IP network / Data network for the largest telco in the US
Stick with Mr Gates. He does no wrong.
Connecting to 3g mobiles / blackberrys / Nokia N96 - issues galore
Storage devices - issues
Plug and play digital cameras - took us 4 hours.
This was before we installed XP on a Linux machine and given the choice again, the owner would have certainly gone down the windows route first time off.
Dont think that we are Joe Bloggs sitting at home having problems, we were on a night shift monitoring/repairing the complete IP network / Data network for the largest telco in the US
Stick with Mr Gates. He does no wrong.
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Re: acer aspire one netbook
by Alchamist on Tue Nov 25, 2008 9:13 pm
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Re: acer aspire one netbook
by Rich on Tue Nov 25, 2008 9:14 pm
i know that would get you going Jay
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