ASUS N10J - A Big DUH for me, and a small one too!
Blog In my recent blog post about the ASUS N10J, I mentioned that with the nVidia graphics enabled, Ubuntu Netbook Remix performed very poorly on it, presumably because of the lack of 3D support in the nVidia driver.
[July 23, 2009, 16:03]
Ubuntu 9.04 (Jaunty Jackalope) Final Release
Blog I have not installed the Ubuntu Netbook Remix (UNR), because it has serious performance problems with the openchrome driver in my HP Mini-Note netbooks. The downloads became available yesterday afternoon, European time, and I have now installed it...
[April 24, 2009, 9:18]
Ubuntu 9.10 (karmic Koala) on Netbooks - Part 1 (Overview)
Blog Comment The Intel driver is quite good in this area, so you can turn on Advanced Video Effects, or run the Ubuntu Netbook Remix, and it all works very nicely. That means you can't enable Advanced Video Effects (not a big deal), and if you try to run the...
[November 5, 2009, 6:27]
Samsung NC20 - A Brief Encounter
Blog My first thought was to put Ubuntu Netbook Remix on it, since we were treating it as a netbook. We had friends visiting over the weekend, and I had a very brief encounter with a new Samsung NC20 notebook/netbook.
[July 23, 2009, 10:25]
Notes On the HP 2133 Mini-Note
Blog The most obvious place where this is visible is that the 2133 just can't run the Ubuntu Netbook Remix well at all, the 3D effects on the UNR desktop are painfully slow. It is derived from the latest Ubuntu distribution, so the latest Mint (7, aka...
[July 30, 2009, 12:23]
Notes On the HP 2133 Mini-Note
Blog Comment But the Ubuntu Netbook Remix desktop seems to make extensive use of OpenGL, because it is painfully slow on the 2133 (and on the ASUS N10J when using the nVidia adapter and nv driver). I was aware that GL didn't have any effect on ordinary desktop...
[August 3, 2009, 17:12]
Ubuntu 9.10 (karmic Koala) on Netbooks - Part 1 (Overview)
Blog Next up, I'll take a look at the Karmic Netbook Remix, and see what has been done to make Ubuntu even more user friendly on netbooks.jw 4/11/2009 Ubuntu Netbook Remix I have promised several people that I would take a look at Ubuntu 9.10 and...
[November 4, 2009, 12:07]
Ubuntu 9.10 (karmic Koala) on Netbooks - Part 2 (Netbook Remix)
Blog Now it is time to move on to the Ubuntu Netbook Remix, a special version produced by Canonical themselves, as opposed to the various "Community" remixes and other derivatives. The Netbook Remix distribution includes a few more packages than the...
[November 5, 2009, 10:17]
Ubuntu Netbook Remix "Acid Test" - Wrap-Up
Blog Comment I think a Mandriva Netbook Remix would be a great idea! I am a bit surprised that neither they, nor anyone else using their distribution as a base, has jumped on the "netbook custom" wagon yet. Was it not handling the wireless interface properly...
[July 10, 2009, 20:38]
Ubuntu Netbook Remix - An Acid Test
Blog Comment I wasn't happy about having to use the mad-wifi atheros driver under mint so I re-installed just in case. This time the wi-fi was instantly on and went on to take me to dells driver website so I could download some drivers for an optimax that I was...
[July 3, 2009, 9:38]
Ubuntu Netbook Remix - An Acid Test
Blog Comment I started with XP on this netbook. I took the plunge and installed Linux Mint on my acer one and apart from having to switch to the proprietary "Mad Wi-Fi" driver, every thing works as it should. @J.A.
[July 1, 2009, 22:07]
Ubuntu Netbook Remix - An Acid Test
Blog Comment Once I enabled it, UNR saw it and loaded the right driver. @wd4nzx - Thanks very much for the excellent tip! I just got the Eee PC back from my neighbor, and in 5 minutes I had the camera working. It was exactly as you said, the camera had been...
[June 24, 2009, 15:14]
