2009/1/3 Andrew Oakley <[email protected]>: > On 03/01/2009, Liam Proven <[email protected]> wrote: >> What's the best Ubuntu remix for the Eee? Eeebuntu, Ubuntu-Eee, something >> else? > > I'll second (third?) Ubuntu-Eee ( www.ubuntu-eee.com ) which I'm using > from my Eee 901 right now. It is based on Ubuntu 8.04 so is supported > for at le ast the next two years. It is imminently to be rebranded > Easy Peasy and the next release will be based on 8.10. I'll stick with > Ubuntu-Eee 8.04 as I prefer the longer LTS release cycle.
Just so - I don't want to be on the 6-monthly upgrades. Maybe on my own machine, not on a non-technical friend's. *Especially* not with a nonstandard kernel. > Ubuntu-Eee/Easy Peasy has a number of advantages over the stock Ubuntu > 8.04, notably boot-up time and built-in SD/Flash boot formatter for > install. > > There are a few points where I've chosen to differ, though: > > * I prefer eee-control to eeepc-config . eee-control supports > eee-control-tray which allows easy access to turn wifi, bluetooth, > card reader on/off to save battery, and also to change the CPU profile > again to save battery. eee-control and eee-control-tray are both > available from the repositories which are configured by default in > Ubuntu-Eee. What is eeepc-config? > * I prefer blueman and gnome-ppp to control bluetooth and GPRS/3G over > bluetooth phones. Gnome-PPP is in the standard Ubuntu repo. Blueman is > at http://blueman.tuxfamily.org/ and they provide a repo for Ubuntu > 8.04 . OK - but why? > * I prefer to mount everything on the SDA SSD, and then have /home2 on > SDB with symlinks from /home/user directories as required. SDA is a > much f aster flash card and things work faster if you have all your > .preferences folders on SDA. What's the difference? What are SDA and SDB? Is this the internal SSD versus the SD slot? His is a 20G model, with a 4G main SSD and a 16G secondary one in the expansion slot, which Xandros makes look like one big disk. -- Liam Proven • Profile: http://www.linkedin.com/in/liamproven Email: [email protected] • GMail/GoogleTalk/Orkut: [email protected] Tel: +44 20-8685-0498 • Cell: +44 7939-087884 • Fax: + 44 870-9151419 AOL/AIM/iChat: [email protected] • MSN/Messenger: [email protected] Yahoo: [email protected] • Skype: liamproven • ICQ: 73187508 -- [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
