Comments on: Merry Christmas from My Asus Eee

By: Nigel Stoner (N!D)

Nigel Stoner (N!D) — Sun, 13 Jan 2008 01:15:53 +0000

Happy new year Jangelo!
My sons shared an Eee for Christms, but I didn’t get mine while the 7th of January. I’m busy sticking my life into the Journal and the PIM and I’m posting this on my 3e of course. My kids are setting high scores on bubble pop and tux racing on theirs.
Can’t reccomend http://www.Eeeuser.com highly enough, a great community where you cn get your hands dirty, if you want….

By: MH

MH — Tue, 08 Jan 2008 19:41:27 +0000

I’m thinking of buying the cheapest version I can find for my mom. It has to be very easy to set up, and relatively inexpensive. Originally I thought of getting a refurb or my hand-me-down. Would appreciate help teaching me if this is set up for a dial-up connection in Manila – she is mostly house-bound. Thanks for the help

By: fatso

fatso — Sun, 30 Dec 2007 17:45:30 +0000

I chose between an iPod classic and an Asus eee and the latter won. That’s where all of my 13th month pay went but I think it’s worth it even if I’m just starting to learn about linux and xandros.

Can you recommend a good book or a site where I can read up about these things?

Thanks and happeee neeew yeeear!

By: jangelo

jangelo — Sat, 29 Dec 2007 21:58:10 +0000

Hi Mark and Manuel,

You can install gFTP by adding the Xandros and/or debian repositories to your /etc/apt/sources.list:

deb http://xnv4.xandros.com/xs2.0/upkg-srv2 etch main contrib non-free

deb http://http.us/debian.org/debian/ stable main

and then run:

sudo apt-get update

and then

sudo apt-get install gftp

That would install gFTP on your system.

After this, be sure to remove the repositories you entered, and run

sudo apt-get update again, to be sure you don’t break your Xandros installation. I’m not sure if it’s in the Xanros repositories, but most likely you can get it direct from the Debian repository cited above..

By: Mark J

Mark J — Sat, 29 Dec 2007 17:32:41 +0000

I was able to find Kwrite but I wasn’t able to download gFTP. Can you provide me info on getting it. Need it to upload or revised webpages. I got mine as a gift for myself and so far i’m loving it. Eee PC is a whole different breed of laptop.

By: ManuelV

ManuelV — Sat, 29 Dec 2007 16:12:17 +0000

Thanks, Angelo. Will read up more on Linux. All this copy/pasting is making me nervous.

By: jangelo

jangelo — Sat, 29 Dec 2007 07:05:56 +0000

There could be something wrong with /etc/apt/sources.list. Make sure the file doesn’t have excess spaces below or above the source lines. Or you can try manually typing in the sources again. Maybe you copied/pasted some characters that aren’t supposed to be in the file.

By: ManuelV

ManuelV — Sat, 29 Dec 2007 05:57:40 +0000

Hi Angelo,

I pressed Ctrl+Alt+T, then typed “sudo bash”, then typed “apt-get update” — and saw the message about having a hard time connecting.

But I could surf to that updates site, and was even able to download the dist files via http. Then I’m stuck, because I don’t know what to do with the http-downloaded file.

Anyway, I really wish the apt-get update would work on the unit I’m using.

Thanks,
Manuel

By: Wilson Co

Wilson Co — Fri, 28 Dec 2007 03:22:18 +0000

No. Too expensive as gift to anyone but myself. It would really make a nice present to any computer literate friends or relative though you would have to be quite wealthy to consider it. So that counts me out at present. Bought one for myself but that’s a bit before Christmas, so not exactly a Christmas present.

Merry Christmas to everyone. Eventhough it’s past Christmas, may the spirit and essence of Christmas be with everyone of us everyday. Let Him know that we remember Him everyday, not just Christmas. Happy Birthday, Jesus.

By: jangelo

jangelo — Thu, 27 Dec 2007 15:39:31 +0000

Hi Manuel. Are you using sudo, or are you at least running apt-get update from a root shell (i.e., by running “sudo bash”)?