novice troubles

[cathysotto]

Hello

I'm new to this forum and to Linux. I bought a aspire one net book so that I needn't lug my heavy laptop to work (I teach English) I can't play anyt sound or video files other than wma sound files and don't know what is the solution, I would love to be a geek but I'm a very long way off and don't always understand what you (I assume you all are) talking about. I would love some simple help?

Thank you

[Kieren]

Okay, first of all welcome to Linux

To play sound or video files you will need to install the correct codecs and a media player. Do you know which distribution of Linux the laptop is running?

[Hal343]

Inside the Aspire One | TuxRadar has a book on the Aspire one available for download which will help to some extent on learning about your netbook.

[cathysotto]

THANK YOU FOR ANSWERING

ITS LINPUS LINUX LITE V109E

I have just downloaded flash player but have yet to try it out might it work

[L4Linux]

Linpus Lite is very limited(some would say crippled...) and I recommend replacing it with a real Linux distribution.

For Acer Aspire One, there is probably nothing better than Ubuntu Easy Peasy.
Everything works out the box: wireless, camera, codecs are preinstalled, flash is preinstalled and it has Firefox 3, OpenOffice 3, Pidgin,VLC and Songbird!!!
You have to do NOTHING after the installation! It really rocks

The installation is really easy and in case you have a question, everyone in the forums can help you, since Ubuntu (on which it is based) is probably the most popular Linux distribution.

[cathysotto]

Thank you linux4 for your reply, this old granny loves being one of your club already and I want to get into that ubuntu club so I shall take your advice.:

Cathy