Asus EEE PC running xubuntu +compiz

Just a demo of my asus eee pc running xubuntu and compiz.

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• asus
• eee
• epc
• xubuntu
• compiz
• graphics
• demo

[eggchris]

is that a eee700 model? 2gb or 4gb? what ram?

[nigelmouse]

It's an eee701, 4GB storage, 512MB ram.

[DaVince21]

My main question is: does all Eee PC hardware still function well when installing regular XUbuntu? Asking because I'm going to be doing this very soon.

[nigelmouse]

Yep, not everything works out of the box but with some tweaks you can get everything working. There's very active forums for finding out the details, google is your friend

[trepiccanti]

when i saw your desktop wallpaper i thought -what the duck?-

[nigelmouse]

Hehe.

[celinocaliente2002]

holy crap. the video performance is incredible. I wasn't expecting that with such a small price tag

[tsuchan1]

seepauliedie: fair point, I see.

[seepauliedie]

i believe eeeeeeebuntu is smaller.

[Alfox64]

Have Easy Peasy running on My Eee 701 4G and it's pretty cool. But Xubuntu looks much faster. I'll put it on a thumbdrive to compare.

[tsuchan1]

Oh, that's very interesting.

Did I understand well, that you didn't install EEE-Buntu but just the regular Ubuntu 8.10 and yet everything worked perfectly straight away?

That makes me think two things:

1) Very encouraging, I want to try it.

2) In that case, I wonder what is the point of a separate eeeBuntu.

By the way, which model do you have?

[donuthater]

i haven't had to install any drivers = Ubuntu 8.10

[eggchris]

amazing, really amazing. They are cheap as hell right now and they manage to do everything what I need. I run xubuntu with compiz on my desktop as primary system and seeing that I can do the same combo on an old eee is just amazing.

[tsuchan1]

Hi KusuriRX... they need "fiddling-around" if you install the OS for yourself. That's a big challenge for Linux - Microsoft has as good as ensured that manufacturers sell PCs with Windows installed.

Issue 1> Users have already paid for and got Windows

Issue 2> Very few PCs have all the "fiddling" sorted by the manufacturers.

But in the case of eeeBuntu, it's beyond my understanding why nobody has found it necessary to get all the components working, and then fed back the fixes into the OS.