Paul Flint <[email protected]> writes: > One of the local geeks got an eee pc 1000. We are trying to make it do some > good things, boot off the usb, load Ubuntu, work with a wacom tablet, and > etc. Simple things really... > > While I have learned a bit about the Xandros distro, I crave someone to talk > to about this thing. Anybody got one of these beasties out there?
I've got my EEE 900 for a year or so now that I put ubuntu-eee 8.04 on … just last night, actually. :) The Xandros distro was okay, but kinda lame. I was actually going to go through the process (of installing ubuntu on the EEE) and some of the post-install tweaks I made, as this month's VAGUE meeting, actually. Heh. Good timing, Paul. I'd be happy to lend the installer SD card (or make another copy) to the 1000 for the meeting … if you're willing to install it there. Or, at least, boot it Live-CD style and see if it works and such. Or, if you're not willing to wait, I found the following links very useful: - http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20080727-running-ubuntu-on-the-eee-pc.html - Critical details for getting the SD card bootable, though I still had to do it twice. - http://www.ubuntu-eee.com/ - Heh. Literally as I've been typing this email this link changed from being their historical media-wiki site to the new <http://www.geteasypeasy.com/>, as I understand Easy Peasy 1.0 will be released imminently. Ubuntu-EEE was 8.04-based, and had naming conflicts with both Canonical and Asus, so they're rebranding to "Easy Peasy"; 1.0 is based off ubuntu 8.10, I understand. - https://help.ubuntu.com/community/EeePC - less useful; Easy Peasy seems to have more momentum. -- ...jsled http://asynchronous.org/ - a=jsled; b=asynchronous.org; echo $...@${b}
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