Ubuntu 9.10 on Samsung N148

[surjagain]

First of all I want to thank Voria for this really incredibly useful forum and the tremendous work he is doing for improving the Linux experience on Samsung netbooks etc.

I bought a Samsung N148 netbook for a few specific reasons. I trust the Samsung brand which has very good after sales service here in Kolkata, India. I wanted a cheap but well built no frills netbook for simple tasks, like reading ebooks, websurfing, chatting, watching ripped movies and listening to MP3s. I did not want any preinstalled OS like Windows XP or Windows 7 because that would only add to the cost and I don't think they are suitable for netbooks. I looked around a bit and found the N148 to be the one I liked.

I installed Ubuntu 9.10 Karmic on my N148 and it ran pretty well except of course the Fn buttons mentioned in this forum. I didn't need most of the Fn functions except the brightness control buttons Fn + up and Fn + dn which are really essential to me. To make them work I installed the PPA as instructed and after the kernel update I think everything works fine . This is really amazing. Thank you for the help I have received from this forum. If there are any recommendations to improve my experience on this netbook, please do let me know.

[voria]

Glad to know everything is working good for you.

Talking about recommandations, there are various things you can do to improve battery life of your netbook. For example, you can enable and configure 'laptop-mode-tools', in order to have a better power management. With Karmic you have to do it manually (look at this thread).
With the next-to-be-released Lucid, a new application will be available which allows a friendly configuration of various aspects related to power management. For more informations, take a look at this thread.