Switching to eeeXubuntu

I’ve forgone installing Windows for now, but I have finally decided to ditch Xandros, at least for the meantime. Sure, I’ve been pretty much a Xandros buff since I got my Eee last December. I thought it was the best for the Eee, since the pre-installed build was developed–or at least tweaked by Asus–specifically for the Eee.

However, the biggest gripe I had was with the wireless manager. It took ages for me to discover wireless networks, even those that I frequently used. For my home network, it took about two minutes to connect to the network from suspend, when it took only about ten seconds on Windows, 15 seconds on Ubuntu, and almost instantaneous with my Mac.

And then there’s the issue of updates. I’m not much for new features and all that. But I want something stable and secure. In all likelihood Xandros isn’t the best when it comes to being secure because of far-apart updates.

Also, I’ve been an Ubuntu user for more than a year now, with my ol’ Compaq V2000. So I’m not alien to Ubuntu.

So this morning I started installing eeeXubuntu, based on the instructions found on EeeUser. I ran it direct from LiveCD (with the USB Combo drive I bought along with the Eee). I’m now downloading updates, and later on I’ll be doing customizations.

April 19, 2008 · Filed by jangelo under Software

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7 Responses to “Switching to eeeXubuntu”

  1. Robert JA Basilio Jr on April 19th, 2008 11:14 pm

    Hi there—

    What I want to find out—and you’re one of the guys that I should pose this question to—is how can we, as Mac users, install OSX on an Asus EeePC?

    A friend of mine whose biased against the Mac—of course I’m at the other end of the spectrum—just bought one and showed it to me.

    It’s not bad looking at all, the EeePC and the price—at P17K—makes it look more handsome than it is.

    I’m thinking of getting one soon. What do you think? Have you thought about installing OSX on your unit?

    Boojie

    Boojie

  2. deuts on April 20th, 2008 4:22 pm

    I believe you can’t make the wifi working in Mac OSX

  3. Ade on April 20th, 2008 7:41 pm

    Welcome to the club, buddy!

  4. Aldrin Cantos on April 23rd, 2008 10:25 am

    Congratulations! I’ll keep my Ubuntu Eee for a while until the final release and see if it makes me turn back to eeexubuntu. I had a good experience with eeexubuntu. The best so far…

  5. My Pink Shoelace on April 24th, 2008 10:42 pm

    OMG!!! Am having a migraine reading your posts … hehehe … so techie Am thinking of getting that pink EEE soon am just not sure if I’ll get by with the OS though ..

  6. twink.e on June 16th, 2008 12:38 am

    osx on asus:

    http://uneasysilence.com/archive/2007/11/12654/

  7. Ed Taekema on August 27th, 2008 3:03 am

    Did you run into any of the crazy errno 5 problems getting eeebunto onto your eee? I can’t get the latest one to install on my eee 900 no matter what I do! Such a shame as it looks really nice now.

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