Ubuntu + Z520

[Alan Chandler]

On Sunday 12 April 2009, Xurxo Fernández Gismero wrote:
> Hi,
> Does anyone have experience with Ubuntu and the Atom Z520 processor?
> Asus is going to release a tablet pc with that processor and I may
> buy it if Ubuntu can be installed. I heard the Dell mini 12 and 10
> have lots of problems because of the poulsbo chipset.
> BTW how is touch screen support in Ubuntu? Network-remix looks like
> it was made with touch screens in mind with all those big icons.
> Thanks in advance

I have a Dell Mini12 I just received, running Ubuntu 8.04. (It uses the 
specific Dell version of ubuntu)

I have had one problem, seems to be known about of the wireless locking 
up with WPA (TKIP) encryption.  I changed to WPA2 and that problem is 
gone.

You are right about the poulsbo chipset meaning at the moment the 
graphic driver is flakey - and so (I think) this is preventing me moving 
away from the Dell distribution.

With all of that said, before it arrived, I was worried that the 
processor was underpowered for what I wanted it for (web development - 
so it would need to run apache and postgres on the machine).  This 
doesn't appear to be the case - although admittedly its a little slow on 
scrolling a web page with lots of graphics.

-- 
Alan Chandler
http://www.chandlerfamily.org.uk