Finally installed MeeGo 1.0 on my Acer Aspire One netbook a few days ago and I must say it really is a promising little Linux distro. It carries a lot on from Moblin 2.1, but is even more snappier even on a really low power netbook like the AA1 original "half a gig ram/8 gig flash drive" -netbook.

MeeGo is the only Linux distro to come with Chrome or Chromium as the default browser, which I like a lot of course. There aren't a lot of applications yet in the main repos but it is Linux so in reality there's a huge amount of apps to choose from.

Here are some instructions on how to install Dropbox for MeeGo (courtesy of MakeUseOf.com):

• Go to the Dropbox Linux download page and grab the Fedora x86 package
• Open up the Terminal, change to the folder containing the Dropbox rpm and do the following:
  sudo yum --nogpgcheck localinstall [name of rpm file]
• The Dropbox app can then be opened from the Applications menu
• Remove the automatically added Dropbox repository by opening the terminal and typing:
  sudo rm /etc/yum.repos.d/dropbox.repo
  Otherwise Yum might not work

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