[Sheflug] EeePC

[Richard Ibbotson <richard@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi

This might interest someone out there due to the fact that it's 
Christmas week next week.  

Been having some problems with my EeePC 701 in that I installed 
Kubuntu 8.04 into it.  Disk space maxed out at 96%.  Other than that 
it was brilliant.  So, what to do ?  I decided that EeeBuntu Netbook 
Remix version 1 might do the job.  Installed it.  Really good.  Then, 
after installing Exim4 the whole thing went up the chute.  By chance 
NBR version 2 (Ubuntu Ibex - 8.10) was released a few days later.  I 
thought why not try that ?  Went to..

http://www.eeebuntu.org/

Grabbed the NBR version.  Wouldn't boot into graphical  mode.  Only 
black screen and command line.   Refused to play at all.  So, I tried 
the standard version.  Really good.  What I didn't know was that the 
desktop in this version of EeePC software is the Avant desktop that 
you can get with Intrepid Ibex...

http://wiki.awn-project.org/index.php?title=Main_Page

This gives you a desktop that is so much like Mac OS X that it's hard 
to tell the difference.  So, well worth the effort for portable or desk 
based computing.


-- 
Richard


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