Tecknobandit Posted October 9, 2008 Share Posted October 9, 2008 Hey folks, anyone tried the eee version of Ubuntu? http://www.ubuntu-eee.com I've installed it on my eeepc 900 and for so far I think it's a handy OS for the netbook users among us. Let me know what your experiences are with this distri. See ya. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
.exe Posted October 9, 2008 Share Posted October 9, 2008 The word on the street is this is very buggy......however, I have not tried this myself. Specifically the wireless is badly supported. Anybody care to enlighten me :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DeGrijze Posted October 9, 2008 Share Posted October 9, 2008 Iam running Ubuntu-eee from the first version thats released. It runs like a charm on my EeePc 701. Even my kids and my wife run Ubuntu-eee on there 701, 701, 900, 901 EeePc's with out problems Gerard Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
twocs Posted October 9, 2008 Share Posted October 9, 2008 When I installed Eee-ubuntu last week, it seemed really great and fine. So after I had tested it out I asked my wife to boot up her computer with it. She liked the design of it, but the second time she booted it up the keyboard didn't respond at all, although the mouse was working. It was quite strange! A reboot took care of it, but it makes me wonder... The wireless on Eee-Ubuntu seems fine to me. It's just that the connection settings in Ubuntu, especially for wireless, took me a little while to get used to. There is some strange roaming setting, which is good to use if you're using DHCP, but not good if you're using a static IP. Once I got used to Ubuntu's wireless, I found that it's easier to use than Windows wireless settings (I often switch around between several static IPs and don't understand why Windows has such an unfriendly way to modify the connection settings). Ubuntu puts all the connections in one place and it's more logical that way, IMO. I'll do some more testing with Eee-ubuntu. But I'm thinking maybe I should just customize Backtrack 3 for the eee 701 instead. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tecknobandit Posted October 9, 2008 Author Share Posted October 9, 2008 I think it's a good thing that there's a growing in development around the netbook-generation. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dr0p Posted October 9, 2008 Share Posted October 9, 2008 I have heard only positive things about it ^_^ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
guyintheroom Posted October 9, 2008 Share Posted October 9, 2008 I'm running it on my 901 and I love it. The only thing that doesn't work is the CPU throttling feature when it's on battery. All the fn keys on the keyboard work perfectly as well as the wireless card. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
3vmike Posted October 10, 2008 Share Posted October 10, 2008 I'm running it on my 901 and I love it. The only thing that doesn't work is the CPU throttling feature when it's on battery. All the fn keys on the keyboard work perfectly as well as the wireless card. I'm running this distro on my eee 1000h and it runs great, I have found only one problem. Out of the box, the os does not mount usb drives well. I found that editing the fstab to exclude the pre-existing cdrom line solves the problem, other than that it works great. Particularly putting the laptop in standby it very quick, perfect for mobile users like me. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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