Posts Tagged ‘Asus eee’
Launchy Available on Linux
Posted on December, 10 at 12:56 am | Filed Under Asus eee
Super charge your linux environment with Launchy the best program launcher for Windows .. now available for linux. If you are running Ubuntu-eee download and install the deb file. Works like a charm!
Turn your Asus eee into an XBMC Media Center
Posted on December, 9 at 8:11 pm | Filed Under Asus eee, Travel
Since I am running Ubuntu-eee on my Asus eee 900, I figured I would try out media players. The eee works nicely as a video player for those long flights from the west coast. VLC works pretty well, but my personal favourite is the Xbox Media Center. It installs fine onto Ubuntu-eee and playback and [...]
Install Ubuntu 8.10 – Asus Edition
Posted on November, 18 at 6:35 am | Filed Under Asus eee
If you just can’t wait to upgrade to the latest ubuntu (8.10), here is a handy guide from tombuntu. If you can wait a bit, there should be a version of ubuntu-eee available based on 8.10 … that is my plan … patience patience …
Ubuntu eee and Sound – Problem with Suspend
Posted on October, 26 at 12:03 am | Filed Under Asus eee
So far my Ubuntu-eee experience has been great. The only hangup I have relate to sound. If I suspend the Asus eee, it can come back, but sound will not work. Has anyone else seen this? I also noticed vlc launched from the NBR interface seemed to mess up the Netbook remix interface’s ability to [...]
Apple misses the netbook boom?
Posted on October, 22 at 9:55 pm | Filed Under Asus eee
Dave Winer is taking Apple to task for not producing an Apple netbook. MSI, Asus and others are shipping the current darling of computer hardware, the netbook and Apple, the designers designer for elegant and functional hardware, is not yet offering a netbook. I would be surprised if this continued for much longer. The netbook [...]
Ubuntu-eee Summary
Posted on October, 20 at 9:07 am | Filed Under Asus eee
David Futcher has also moved his Asus eee to Ubuntu-eee and is liking it. He offers a pretty good overview of what you get when switching over Ubuntu from Xandros. I would add that at least in my case, moving to Ubuntu has sped up my little laptop noticeably. This might have to do with [...]
Another Configuration Management Snafu – Asus Edition
Posted on October, 15 at 10:51 pm | Filed Under Asus eee, CM
I think these netbook manufacturers aren’t quite ready for the big leagues yet … at least not in their configuration management process. When are they going to learn that someone needs to have absolute control over the contents of what goes into a build of their products? Here is the latest problem, this time Asus [...]
I Switched my Asus eee 900 to Ubuntu eee 8.04.1
Posted on October, 11 at 7:53 am | Filed Under Asus eee
I’ve made the switch to Ubuntu for my Asus eee 900. I played around with the ubuntu-eee distribution a while ago and convinced myself that the install would work. What finally pushed me to do this what the very stale app repository for Xandros … So I backed up all my personal files to a [...]
Asus eee – Upgrade Solid State Storage
Posted on October, 8 at 11:52 am | Filed Under Asus eee
Super Talent has line the availability of a new line of mini PCI-Express SSDs, in 16GB, 32GB and 64GB sizes. These are designed and tested with Asus eee. The current pricing is $53 for the 16 Gig, $79 for the 32 Gig, and $149 for the 65 Gig models. So if you are running into [...]
Booting Linux in 5 seconds – custom Asus eee Edition
Posted on October, 6 at 8:37 am | Filed Under Asus eee
A pair of Linux programmers demonstrated a 5 second complete boot on as Asus eee. They used modified versions of fedora and Mobiln. The 5 seconds boot time included loading the network manager but not bringing up the network. They used a number of tricks including: All unnecessary services were eliminated (like sendmail). Kernel built [...]
Apple’s descent into evil – Rise of the Netbooks
Posted on September, 24 at 11:44 am | Filed Under Asus eee
Ned Batchelder is very unimpressed with Apple’s failures of late. He takes issue with their Non-Disclosure agreement preventing a lot of developer conversations, draconian control over the app store and finally claiming that app rejections by apple are covered under the NDA so developers can’t discuss them out load. There has been this undercurrent of [...]
Say Goodbye to Errno 5 – Install Ubuntu on Asus eee 900
Posted on September, 23 at 9:59 pm | Filed Under Asus eee
Errno 5 was the bane of my existance. Every variation I tried to install the live cd version of Ubuntu 8.04 or eeeBuntu ended in an errno 5 report somewhere during the install … and always a different spot. So I gave up … until now. The new release of ubuntu-eee (8.04.1) installed on my [...]
Install a Bittorrent Client on your Asus eee
Posted on September, 22 at 7:02 am | Filed Under Asus eee
One of pieces of softare missing from my Asus eee Xandros install is a good bittorent client. So far I have experimented with getting a number of bittorent clients working with less than good results. Most of the client’s out there (transmission, deluge for example) require some additional tweaking of the repositories and I alway [...]
Install firefox 3.01 on Asus eee
Posted on August, 29 at 9:03 pm | Filed Under Asus eee, Collaboration
There are many guides on how to manipulate the apt sources.list, tricky package changes to do, and strange procedures all to get the firefox 2 default on Xandros upgraded to Firefox 3.01. In my case I really wanted to get Ubiquity on my ASUS Eee PC 900. After looking at all the options, the best [...]
The Asus Works … for me also
Posted on August, 28 at 10:44 pm | Filed Under Asus eee, Travel
Like Dave Winer, I bought an Asus eee laptop for its weight … or lack of. I need to carry around a Lenovo T60p work machine that is built very very heavy. For my own laptop, I needed something that wouldn’t break my back or the bank and and went with Asus eee 900 16 [...]
How not to Install Ubuntu on an Asus eee 900
Posted on August, 26 at 11:40 am | Filed Under Asus eee
I’ve fallen for a 16 gig Asus eee 900. Its a sweet little laptop that I can easily bring along with my main workhorse (lenovo T60p) laptop when travelling and gives me a great wifi enable personal laptop. What I would really like though, is to install Ubuntu 8.04 on it. There are two different [...]
