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holotone
wrote on the 28 Feb 08 at 23:50
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Especially relevant now that it appears eeeXubuntu is dead in the water...
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nathdunn
wrote on the 29 Feb 08 at 02:07
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I attempted to put my favourite distro on my new eeepc, but eventually gave up and modified the default xandros.
With the information on http://wiki.eeeuser.com/#ubuntu_7.10_gutsy_gibbon I was able to get most things working. Native wifi drivers (not the wrapper script), webcam, sound, graphics performance(3d), Fn keys(well, some anyway). I assume these items will be merged at some stage.
However, there were some problems I could not fix, causing me to switch, my reasons are below
1, performance, particularly boot time. I realise this is more of a general problem and we're competing against a cutdown distro with custom init process, I saw popular ideas #558 and #470 that may help
2, function keys, ALL the function keys need to work, not just most of them, I could change volume or brightness, but not switch to external display or switch wireless on and off. Important when you want to save power when away from home.
3, sleep mode did not recover properly. Not hibernate, there's not enough disk space to hibernate. Suspend mode works great in the default xandros. but not in gutsy, see popular idea #480
4, remembering wireless password, another general one, though I can't find an existing idea for this. the keyring thing failed miserably.
Cheers,
Nathan
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wolfier
wrote on the 29 Feb 08 at 02:25
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Read again - I'm able to switch WiFi on and off. LCD/Monitor switch works, too. And my Alt-F6 is mapped to 630/900 Mhz switch.
It's silly to ask the maintainers to keep track of one more moving target. Further, if EEE support is added, what would stop someone from asking a specific brand XXXX laptop to be supported?
Remember, resource is limited. Forums like eeeuser.com serves its purpose, and I think it's best to leave the job to these excellent sites.
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webs05
wrote on the 29 Feb 08 at 15:08
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I'm not sure how this is more important than say fixing actual error within Ubuntu?
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I like the idea of adding support for the EEE PC. If a laptop reaches a certain level of popularity, it SHOULD be supported.
I'd bring a lot more people around to Ubuntu if the EEE PC was supported without any additional tweaking.
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bntuuu
wrote on the 29 Feb 08 at 19:36
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Perhaps there should just be a push from eee users to be more active for install testing.
I agree with the general concept of making Ubuntu ubiquitous. However, I would not want to put too much emphasis on any particular hardware configuration.
Thus I vote down.
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jiu
wrote on the 2 Mar 08 at 12:26
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don't see any point in doubling up on the eeeXubuntu community's work. THat's one of the points of free software, you don't need to redo what other people have done.
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This is a very good idea. I would elaborate on it as follows.
Perhaps Canonical can 'unilaterally' certify Ubuntu on the Eee (and the handful of other potentially popular new Linux devices, if they become popular). This is unilateral, unlike the collaboration with Dell on the Dell-Ubuntu machines. But still, saying "this Edition of Ubuntu will run perfectly on your Eee" might get a lot of people to load Ubuntu on their Eee, and it looks like that might mean a lot of installations of Ubuntu.
Sure, it would be better to get Ubuntu pre-installed on the Eee, but since that isn't the case, this is what is left to do. It might still turn out to be a lot of installations. Furthermore, it might convince ASUS to go with Ubuntu the next time around, if the official Ubuntu Eee edition runs better than their current choice of Linux.
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richie
wrote on the 9 Mar 08 at 22:59
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eee xubuntu is dead!!
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I agree with nattybohman, the eee pc is already very popular, even when it's not released in a lot of countries. Eee users that need a *really* easy to work, learn and play laptop should be able to install ubuntu without troubles, reading endless forums, tweaking, etc..
It's not an average laptop, so there is imho a difference between asking brand xxxx laptop support and asking support for this rising umpc, wich many people will get.
eeeuser.com serves indeed a good purpose but native support can't compete with a forum.
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aysiu
(Brainstorm moderator)
wrote on the 24 May 08 at 01:22
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Is this the Netbook Remix Mark Shuttleworth is talking about?
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The eeePC user forum ( http://www.eeeuser.com/ ) and eeePcXubuntu + other approaches are admirable attempts at helping eeePC users, but they all seem to involve technicalities from what I've seen.
1. Installation from USB stick is possible, but, again, has some advanced user elements... so..
A. Have something like Wubi that installs Ubuntu as a boot option. Users can still boot back into Xandros. If there are space issues then make it a cut down Ubuntu.
B. A Wubu-like option would be a download. Also have a separate download that installs Ubuntu completely over Xandros.
2. Ubuntu Gnome seems especially well setup for a notebook like eeePC...
A. Interface is simple and clear.
B. Has zooming capability installed by default.
3. The only thing that is missing is a clear "big icon" notebook / pda interface (such as comes with "simple" Xandros). An already existing package of this kind of interface could be used, and could be customisable.
4. eeePc would be updated through the usual package management methods that would keep track of supporting new hardware in new Asus models.
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+1!
All ideas would help Eeepc and AspireOne to upgrade to Ubuntu is strongly welcome!
It's weird about why the manufacturers like Acer and Asus didn't realize Xandros and Linpus has not that popularity and active community envolved as Ubuntu has...
If all these manufacturers don't want to use Ubuntu distribution directly, at least it would be fine being one based on Ubuntu, like gOS, gNewSense, Alinex, or any other which we can use the Ubuntu or Debian repositories there...
And for example, it's extremelly hard to find a Xandros and Linpus .iso for testing, getting assured it's the most recent official one, and getting it run from Qemu, while doing the same with Ubuntu .iso is extremelly easy...
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