eeePC, eeeXubuntu, demo. US / FR Review

[gxz100]

the password is 12345678 :D

[Chintendoeddman]

Does this support the new 1005 models? Because my graphics card isn't supported in 9.10 or 10.04. Please tell me the 1005 has a graphics card

[aleshje]

is it to possible to restore factory settings after reformatting the partitions

[NamesED]

when i try to boot the cd on my pc to put it onto a usb flash, when i selected start xubuntu (the one for eeepc) it just displays a bunch of text witch says ok at the end like

bla bla bla device [OK] and when it reaches the end it stops, the screen blinks 3-4 times and it does nothing until i press the shutdown button...wtf

[Danny77uk]

Will this be faster than running XP?

[g33kofunix]

um, duh

[Danny77uk]

WTF is your problem? I asked a serious question.

[g33kofunix]

Sorry, I tend to be kind of blunt, the xp operating system is about 2.5 gigs, the other operating system is approx .5 gigs. Also, xp is MUCH more resource intensive than linux

[isaidTV]

I was wondering if eeexubuntu would work well on an acer aspire one?

[g33kofunix]

i guess so, but it would require quite a bit of messing around because the whole idea is that eeexubuntu is basically just xubuntu with eee native drivers

[jester070993]

If I install eeeXubuntu to my eee pc, will wifi work out of the box with no problems?

[Cumulus20359]

Yes, it will.

[arinlares]

why not just use regular Xubuntu, wouldn't it give fewer problems than this newly developed Xubuntu derivitive? I've also heard that DSL would work pretty good on an EeePC, but don't know myself.

[dobsonator]

yes

[a1mint]

Lots of wifi problems out of the box though.

[xXfalafelXx]

is installing another OS on an eeepc as easy as on any pc? I mean, it hasn't got a hard drive.

[justinjstark]

What do you mean it doesn't have a harddrive? It has a 4G SSD (solid state drive) and the surf has a 2G.

[qfuf]

you mean optical drive?

[romanoskar]

If you pay attention, it isn't. You can just go brute force and ignore details like that you shouldn't put swap space on an ssd drive, and rather use a ramdisk, and reduce swappiness and so forth.

I would say: don't do it if you don't know what you're doing. All the kids think they're l33t so that won't help. Nothing like learning about hardware by trashing your first ssd drive :D

[jasonmansey]

Does wifi work out of the box on the eeexubuntu install?

[ieagel]

yes

[LinuxGalore]

It was only a mater of time before someone would release a EEE specific Linux distro. Give it a few months and it will get faster because the hardware in the EEE is static so speed hacks can easily be implemented.

[lenooh]

what command did you type in the console at 2:38?

[vvlist]

I'm almost certain that program is called "htop."