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Asus Eee and Ubuntu - more screen shots
Blog I've noticed that the screen saver doesn't douse the backlight, and that Ubuntu is easily confused about the battery state, so there's plenty of room here for tweakery. As requested, here are some screen shots of various packages running on the Eee.
[October 28, 2007, 18:35]
Asus Eee and Ubuntu - more screen shots
Blog Comment Now the "experiment" of Ubuntu in EeePC is totally 100% Ok! @ Rupert Many thanks, Rupert. D
[November 21, 2007, 6:51]
Asus Eee and Ubuntu - more screen shots
Blog Comment Now, if possible, try to connect the Asus EeePC with external monitor and change the resolution of the screen to the maximum size supported by it. If positive, the Asus EeePC have not barriers for work with these applications at normal and/or high...
[October 29, 2007, 8:50]
Asus Eee and Ubuntu - more screen shots
Blog Comment Ok, Rupert. Thanks to your fundamental help, the article is now on-line: Asus EeePC - Applicazioni Grafiche Avanzate http://zeirus.wordpress.com direct link: http://zeirus.wordpress.com/2007/10/29/asus-eeepc-applicazioni-grafiche-avanzate/
[October 29, 2007, 9:33]
Asus Eee and Ubuntu - more screen shots
Blog Comment I plugged in an external screen and turned on - the Eee spotted it and configured itself correctly for the 1280x1024 resolution. Haven't played with that beyond this point, but it looked most usable.
[October 30, 2007, 17:58]
Screenshots: Ubuntu 9.10 Karmic Koala review
Reviews Rather than show the dmesg information during boot-up, Ubuntu 9.10 displays this minimal boot screen based on the Ubuntu logo. Ubuntu Software Center The same logo is used during installation, and later on when booting into Ubuntu 9.10 from the...
[October 28, 2009, 9:40]
Ubuntu 7.10 review
Reviews If someone is away from their Ubuntu 7.10 machine and has locked their desktop, you can leave a message that will be displayed in the bottom right corner of the screen when they return. Some of the new features in Ubuntu 7.10 are behind-the-scenes...
[November 1, 2007, 15:14]
Debian GNU/Linux 5.0 (lenny) Released
Blog Comment Yes, initial installation of Debian lenny is considerably easier than Ubuntu 8.10, because it is a completely routine installation up to the point where it makes the first boot. If you install either Debian or Ubuntu, you'll have to compile the...
[February 17, 2009, 16:09]
HP 2133 Mini-Note
Blog Comment Lenovo S10e, Windows XP, Ubuntu and Windows 7 Beta I installed the Netbook version of Ubuntu using Wubi. Subsequently, I partitioned the hard drive to provide a 22.5Mb partition for Widows 7 Beta and, though I felt some initial anxiety, the...
[January 26, 2009, 15:51]
HP 2133 Mini-Note: Lessons Learned
Blog Comment On the Ubuntu login screen, your login name and password use a font which is much too large for the input fields. I just went through the Ubuntu 8.10 installation from the alternate install CD, to check that this was right:
[March 9, 2009, 11:40]
What Do We Expect from Netbooks?
Blog The Ubuntu Netbook Remix is one example of this, but there are plenty of others. Mine is currently loaded with Ubuntu, SuSE, Fedora, Mandriva, PCLinuxOS and Windows XP Professional (although I honestly can't remember the last time I booted Windows...
[March 26, 2009, 10:38]
Linux Mint 7 "Gloria" - It Just Keeps Getting Better
Blog Once the boot is complete and Mint is running, you'll see that the default screen layout is different from Ubuntu - there is only one system panel, at the bottom of the screen, rather than two at the top and bottom.
[May 28, 2009, 8:19]
Ubuntu 9.10 (karmic Koala) on Netbooks - Part 1 (Overview)
Blog I have promised several people that I would take a look at Ubuntu 9.10 and several of its derivatives on netbook hardware. There are several things that you can change in the standard Ubuntu desktop to make it more netbook-friendly.
[November 4, 2009, 12:07]
Ubuntu 9.10 (karmic Koala) on Netbooks - Part 3 (Xubuntu Xfce)
Blog When you first log in to Xubuntu, you will see top and bottom panels on the screen, somewhat similar to the standard Ubuntu/Gnome panels. In Part 1 of this series I looked at some general netbook concepts, and the "standard" Ubuntu distribution.
[November 9, 2009, 14:26]
Using Xfce for a Netbook Desktop
Blog The standard Xubuntu desktop has panels at the top and bottom of the screen, much like the standard Ubuntu Gnome distribution. Download and installation were as smooth and easy as usual with Ubuntu. I used the Ubuntu utility to convert the LiveCD...
[August 14, 2009, 10:27]
Ubuntu Intrepid Ibex Alpha 6 - Good News for Laptop Users
Blog I installed Ubuntu 8.10 (Intrepid Ibex) Alpha 6 on both of my laptops over the weekend, and it looks very good. In the original announcement of the Intrepid Ibex development, Ubuntu spoke of giving priority to "pervasive internet access", and it...
[September 22, 2008, 14:04]
Ubuntu 7.04 review
Reviews Like Windows Vista's controversial User Account Control, a security feature that freezes the desktop screen and asks for a password in order to access administrator-protected features, Ubuntu also darkens the screen during its security prompts...
[July 13, 2007, 11:39]
Ubuntu 9.10 (karmic Koala) on Netbooks - Part 2 (Netbook Remix)
Blog It resembles the standard Ubuntu (Gnome) panel more closely, with the notifier, shutdown options and the like there, rather than taking space in the main screen menu bar, which seems much more logical to me.
[November 5, 2009, 10:17]
Linux and Laptop Screen Resolutions
Blog As I have mentioned before, neither Ubuntu nor Mandriva was able to handle this "properly". However, the Beta release of Ubuntu 8.10 (Intrepid Ibex) has added an interesting new twist. The result of all this is that Mandriva can do what I...
[October 13, 2008, 16:03]
HP 2133 Mini-Note: Lessons Learned
Blog The one which came the closest was Ubuntu 9.04 Alpha 5; it would install and appeared to be ok at first, but after rebooting the screen was just blank. I tried Ubuntu 9.04, Mandriva 2009.0, openSuSE 11, MEPIS 8.0, VectorLinux 6.0 and PCLinuxOS 2009...
[March 2, 2009, 11:42]
