The Wise Monkey
04-25-2009, 11:23 AM
Just been released, and I have been trying the netbook revision out on my eeePC.
My experiences with Linux have been fairly limited - used Fedora at University, installed Ubuntu 8.10 on an old tablet and my eee came pre-installed with the standard Xandros distro that is used for all Linux eeePCs.
I have had XP SP3 installed and running on my netbook for a while, but I had heard about the "netbook remix" version of Ubuntu that was being released, and I thought that it was about time to try and use it properly.
Installation was easy - wrote the supplied .img file to a USB thumb drive, booted from that and was up and running in about 20 mins.
Networking was easy to set up, and I soon had Firefox configured the way I like it. Had a few issues regarding the default keyring continuously asking for my password, but sorted this out eventually - the Ubuntu forums were a very good source of information.
Perhaps the best thing I have found is Wine - a tool that can emulate a Windows environment within a Linux distribution. I have heard about this software, but have never tried it out. However, I have been using Spotify a lot since it was released, and really wanted to keep on using it, so I decided to give Wine a try.
Long story short, I am currently listening to "Pinball Wizard" by The Who, and my view on Ubuntu is definitely improved. :D
Not everything went smoothly. For example, Firefox 3 is really very slow on Linux, for some reason, and the mouse pad skips nbw and again, but I am sure these issues will be solved in the near future.
I am very impressed with this new version of ubuntu - I am sure that I won't be going back to Windows any time soon on my netbook, but it still isn't enough to tempt me away from Vista for my main PC. Despite this, it is a very good alternative, and I recommend it to anyone who wants to try out a different OS. :)
My experiences with Linux have been fairly limited - used Fedora at University, installed Ubuntu 8.10 on an old tablet and my eee came pre-installed with the standard Xandros distro that is used for all Linux eeePCs.
I have had XP SP3 installed and running on my netbook for a while, but I had heard about the "netbook remix" version of Ubuntu that was being released, and I thought that it was about time to try and use it properly.
Installation was easy - wrote the supplied .img file to a USB thumb drive, booted from that and was up and running in about 20 mins.
Networking was easy to set up, and I soon had Firefox configured the way I like it. Had a few issues regarding the default keyring continuously asking for my password, but sorted this out eventually - the Ubuntu forums were a very good source of information.
Perhaps the best thing I have found is Wine - a tool that can emulate a Windows environment within a Linux distribution. I have heard about this software, but have never tried it out. However, I have been using Spotify a lot since it was released, and really wanted to keep on using it, so I decided to give Wine a try.
Long story short, I am currently listening to "Pinball Wizard" by The Who, and my view on Ubuntu is definitely improved. :D
Not everything went smoothly. For example, Firefox 3 is really very slow on Linux, for some reason, and the mouse pad skips nbw and again, but I am sure these issues will be solved in the near future.
I am very impressed with this new version of ubuntu - I am sure that I won't be going back to Windows any time soon on my netbook, but it still isn't enough to tempt me away from Vista for my main PC. Despite this, it is a very good alternative, and I recommend it to anyone who wants to try out a different OS. :)