Posts Tagged ‘ubuntu-eee’

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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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