Hi dude, I got an Acer Netbook too (aspire one ZG5) and I try the Fedora USB creator and I got a lot of errors too, after then I just use the Linux-Live USB Creator and this one works fine. You can make your usb bootable and install the Fedora (or whatever Linux flavor you want) with no problems. Hope this can help you

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Hey Jack (aka fanguangshou :D ), welcome to the Forum and you too Matt, by the way, where are you from Matt?
If you need some help, mfillpot is the man :D
and you can ask me too (easy questions I'm not an expert) lol

Fedora is a good option, they have pre-installed Development tools and they repositories are full of other cool tools and alternativily you can download the "Mono Framework" it's useful for C/C++ and .NEt development. I hope this can help you

I think I'll learn from you :D

Hey dude, thanks for the info. I'm downloading the files :D

Thanks

I like more Ubuntu One, is a great cloud service... and you can sync with your iphone :D