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Ubuntu Netbook Remix

Installing Ubuntu NetBook Remix on my ASUS EEE PC 900A was as simple as burning the boot image to a USB stick, inserting it into the EEE, pressing escape on boot, selecting the USB drive, and installing normally.  This is now my third OS on this NetBook, all Linux based.

First impressions: it is quite noticeably faster.  Firefox had been sluggish at times, but now is snappy.  Installing flash was straightforward (visit YouTube, follow the links, select the .deb for Ubuntu) and while video had been nearly jerk free, it now is completely smooth.

Fonts look better.  Installation of new software has been redone (Synaptic => Ubuntu Software Center), though it states that “Microsoft Core Fonts are not available in the current data” (I use Georgia if available on my banner).

Wifi and sound worked out of the box.

Wakeup from suspend: 5 seconds.

Slightly more disk space available:

$ df
Filesystem           1K-blocks      Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda1              3644768   2056740   1402884  60% /
udev                    509040       244    508796   1% /dev
none                    509040       100    508940   1% /dev/shm
none                    509040       108    508932   1% /var/run
none                    509040         0    509040   0% /var/lock
none                    509040         0    509040   0% /lib/init/rw

sudo apt-get install msttcorefonts worked.

Posted by Sam Ruby at

Cold boot to login prompt: 51 seconds

Posted by Sam Ruby at

I plan to get this on my 901A this weekend, as latest release of EasyPeasy isn’t too stable - but before I do that - does power management work properly? I.e. can you reduce the process to powersave and increase it back to performance, rather than always be stuck on "auto"?

Good news, however!

Posted by Dominykas at

All the previews didn’t help... “can you reduce processor speed”

Posted by Dominykas at

I haven’t experimented with it, but there is a pm-powersave command.

Posted by Sam Ruby at

first bug report — other than the system self reporting an internal failure, I’m not seeing any ill effects.

Posted by Sam Ruby at

Might be a timeout?

Posted by Sam Ruby at

Regarding tweaking power management settings, I suggest reading <[link]> which is an enlightened argument as to why you generally shouldn’t do this.

Posted by Jon at

Retro Virus

Randall Munroe:  How timely.  Within the past week, both my sister-in-law and my wife’s netbooks got hit by viruses.  I spent yesterday wiping and reinstalling my wife’s machine.  While many of the details have changed,... [more]

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