Not done yet!
Firmly on my todo list though.
On Fri, Dec 19, 2008 at 09:02:48PM +1100, elliott-brennan wrote:
How'd you go with it Matt?
Matthew Hannigan wrote:
On Fri, Dec 12, 2008 at 08:42:35PM +1100, elliott-brennan wrote:
I have a 701 (well, the wife has it :)) on which I
installed
Well I just finished installing eeebuntu on the Mrs' EEE-PC 901, it works
incredibly well; WPA2 worked out of the box, 3g connection through her Nokia
3110, Compiz and its flashyness, and the Kernal was installed correctly.
Thanks everyone for your advice. The only reason we went eeebuntu was the
'fair enough...know the feeling!
Matthew Hannigan wrote:
Not done yet!
Firmly on my todo list though.
On Fri, Dec 19, 2008 at 09:02:48PM +1100, elliott-brennan wrote:
How'd you go with it Matt?
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Christmas is near.
Check out this (I don't work for them, mind you)
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CRAP...I want to trade in my 701 and buy
this...but the missus is opposed!
Morgan
On Wed, Dec 17, 2008 at 03:57:42PM +1100, Daniel Pittman wrote:
I was specifically interested in the claim by the OP that the custom
kernel was *faster*, and that this improved boot time, especially by
virtual of removing drivers.
Using my own custom kernel sped up /dev udev population from
On Sunday 21 December 2008 10:04:20 Morgan Storey wrote:
Well I just finished installing eeebuntu on the Mrs' EEE-PC 901, it
works incredibly well; WPA2 worked out of the box, 3g connection
through her Nokia 3110, Compiz and its flashyness, and the Kernal
was installed correctly.
Yes. Seems
How'd you go with it Matt?
Matthew Hannigan wrote:
On Fri, Dec 12, 2008 at 08:42:35PM +1100, elliott-brennan wrote:
I have a 701 (well, the wife has it :)) on which I
installed eeebuntu which works a treat. The screen
is small, and the keyboard is small, but it is
also very light and quick
Hi Morgan,
All the function buttons work and I have a
wireless router at home and use it all the time.
What is 'quick start'?
Regards,
Patrick
Morgan Storey wrote:
Are any of the hardware features lost with eeebuntu though? Like the wifi,
or quick start?
On Fri, Dec 12, 2008 at 8:42 PM,
Daniel Pittman wrote:
I was specifically interested in the claim by the OP that the custom
kernel was *faster*, and that this improved boot time, especially by
virtual of removing drivers.
It is faster to boot. And it seems that a fair bit of that is from
built-in drivers. Looks like there's
Are any of the hardware features lost with eeebuntu though? Like the wifi,
or quick start?
On Fri, Dec 12, 2008 at 8:42 PM, elliott-brennan
elliottbren...@gmail.comwrote:
I have a 701 (well, the wife has it :)) on which I
installed eeebuntu which works a treat. The screen
is small, and the
On Fri, Dec 12, 2008 at 08:42:35PM +1100, elliott-brennan wrote:
I have a 701 (well, the wife has it :)) on which I
installed eeebuntu which works a treat. The screen
is small, and the keyboard is small, but it is
also very light and quick to start/shut-down. It
certainly does the job we got
On Wed, 17 Dec 2008 09:13:44 +1100
Morgan Storey m...@morganstorey.com wrote:
Are any of the hardware features lost with eeebuntu though? Like the
wifi, or quick start?
Can't say about eeebuntu, but with Debian Lenny everything works.
Booting is probably slower than the original, but not
This one time, at band camp, Matthew Hannigan wrote:
I'm also going to put eeebuntu or possibly the eee fedora
distro on it. (downloading eeebuntu 8.10 right now in fact)
There's also Ubuntu Eee, just to be confusing. It's less dogmatic about
the free software thing. I've been incredibly
Morgan Storey wrote:
Are any of the hardware features lost with eeebuntu though? Like the wifi,
or quick start?
On Fri, Dec 12, 2008 at 8:42 PM, elliott-brennan
elliottbren...@gmail.comwrote:
All worked for me,
Somebody released a custom kernel for it, (basically stripped out loads
of
Jake Anderson ya...@vapourforge.com writes:
Morgan Storey wrote:
Are any of the hardware features lost with eeebuntu though? Like the wifi,
or quick start?
All worked for me, Somebody released a custom kernel for it,
(basically stripped out loads of hardware drivers) took a good 10-15
2008/12/17 Daniel Pittman dan...@rimspace.net:
Jake Anderson ya...@vapourforge.com writes:
Morgan Storey wrote:
Are any of the hardware features lost with eeebuntu though? Like the wifi,
or quick start?
All worked for me, Somebody released a custom kernel for it,
(basically stripped out
Sridhar Dhanapalan srid...@dhanapalan.com writes:
2008/12/17 Daniel Pittman dan...@rimspace.net:
Jake Anderson ya...@vapourforge.com writes:
Morgan Storey wrote:
Are any of the hardware features lost with eeebuntu though? Like the wifi,
or quick start?
All worked for me, Somebody released a
quote who=Daniel Pittman
I was specifically interested in the claim by the OP that the custom
kernel was *faster*, and that this improved boot time, especially by
virtual of removing drivers.
Intel's five second boot was done on a 901, and changes to the kernel had a
surprising level of
I have a 701 (well, the wife has it :)) on which I
installed eeebuntu which works a treat. The screen
is small, and the keyboard is small, but it is
also very light and quick to start/shut-down. It
certainly does the job we got it for. A larger
keyboard and screen would be nice, but at the
price
Hi
So what's people's experiences? The MSI Wind is looking like a
front runner from the reviews I've read.
What are the real world experiences?
The EeePC has become the scourge of the world of netbook hardware
whilst other hardware people try to catch up. Also, have a read
through
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