Its new its swish and it costs less than a new bike. Yes thats right the Acer Aspire One Cloudbook was made for Linux.
Heres how to do it.
1. Burn a copy of Fedora Core to a USB using RUFUS.
2. Boot from F12 the USB.
3. Erase the original Disk and install a fresh OS.
4. Set Password in BIOS and add Grub.iefi file to Database
Reboot
Only downside is as I now discovered it has limitations on floating point precision. So very small numbers that work on my Toshiba dont work on the netbook. Possible workaround is to use BOOST.
Other than that everything else works very well and it is way swish and fast as it should be running the N3050 chipset it is able to do parallel processing - (The whole point of me getting this netbook).
I installed OpenCL with little difficulty. Intels SDK for building Parallel processing into your programs.
1. Download OpenCL SDK for Linux
2. Extract the CPU Librarys from the RPM using RPM2CPIO
3. Install the Librarys to your machine and include them in the /etc/opencl/vendors list.
4. Install the headers and the base via dnf
5. Run the examples
Now all I need to do is figure out how it works!
PS : Be warned though it does require the most recent Fedora as Older versions wont recognise the Solid State disc at boot time.
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