Re: Netbook & Distro for Bob

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Bob says he has found a "very little" used Aspire One D255 (N550, 1GB DDR3, 250GB HDD) for $100 locally.  Sound like a 
decent price?  Of course a RAM upgrade would be in order...

Thanks for the suggestions, I'm sure Bob will spend many late hours exploring these possibilities.  He said he hopes to 
achieve max LOLs with this project.


On Aug 23, 2012, at 7:19 AM, Arch Angel wrote:

> I would try and find an older Aspire One on eBay or Craigslist, WalMart may even still sell some.  That's if it must 
> be a netbook.  Have you considered older IBM Thinkpads, not much bigger and work nicely.  Any of those directions 
> though are not going to have tons of computing power so any password cracking or other intensive tasks may not do 
> well.
>
> I have three different netbooks, HP MiniNote 2133, Dell, and Aspire One.  The HP MiniNote didn't do very well without 
> changing the internal wireless card and tweaking things a good bit and tend to cost more because of the aluminum 
> case.  The dell did well but an external wireless card (USB) is a must and they can be found fairly well at a 
> reasonable price.  The Aspire one had an Atheros wireless card in them from the factory so if thats the gig then 
> perfect.  I have seen people tweak the system to accept an external antenna but not sure how much work it really 
> took, I just seen it completed.  The system itself is like all the netbooks, not a ton of computing power but gets 
> the job done and can be found easy enough.
>
> Once you have the net book I would run BackTrack or Pentoo on a hard disk install.  To get the custom work you can 
> knock out a shell script or Python script to execute on boot changing all those things.  Just give yourself a couple 
> minutes before connecting it to a network after boot to make sure every change was completed, or script in a message 
> box saying "Bob Is Ready"
>
> Hope this helps,
>
> Robert
> (arch3angel)
>
> On Wed, Aug 22, 2012 at 11:45 PM, xgermx <xgermx () gmail com> wrote:
> Good luck finding a netbook these days. I'd opt for a cheap laptop instead, but that wasn't your question. As far as 
> the OS goes, I recommend BackTrack 5 R3 in stealth mode.
>
> Best,
>
> germ.
>
> On Wed, Aug 22, 2012 at 9:19 PM, <admin () badcrc com> wrote:
> My friend Bob is looking for a reasonably priced netbook with the following qualities:
>
> -Wireless (with expansion capabilities in case Bob wants to do wireless bridging, etc.)
> -Hardware that plays well with Linux
> -Decent battery life
> -Durable (will spend most of its life bouncing around in a backpack with other electronics)
>
> Bob was also wondering if there are any live distros out there that are privacy-centric.  He was hoping the OS he 
> boots to would be anonymized every time (randomized MACs, hostname, etc. and any other privacy countermeasures).  
> Sorry, I know Bob is pretty paranoid, I tell him so all the time...
>
> Bob would appreciate any advice or recommendations.  Thanks!
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