streamlining for eee pc

[Les Gray]

Am Mittwoch, den 02.04.2008, 08:07 +0800 schrieb Senectus .:

> >  James
> You're probably better off just jumping right to the pre-optimized
> distro for it, eeeXubuntu:
> http://wiki.eeeuser.com/ubuntu:eeexubuntu:home

Was gonna suggest eeeXubuntu, too. A post about installing a slightly
newer kernel is also available on the eeeXubuntu forums at eeeuser.com.
This has better hardware support all round and has USB suspend turned on
by default, so you can put your eee to sleep with a mounted SD card in
the slot and not have it go haywire.

There's not much to remove from eeeXubuntu. Apart from adding lots of
multimedia and network apps that it doesn't ship with, I think the only
software change I made was uninstall Abiword and replace it with
Openoffice. And even with a bilingual install the space taken up was
less than 2.5 GB.

However, I'm sorry to say that I found the wifi still too flaky for my
needs. So for external use I slapped a (gulp) nLited WinXP on the SSD
and now run eeeXubuntu for home use only, off a 4GB SDHC card. This
probably has more to do with my uni's network more than anything,
because I know there are plenty of happy wifi-using eeeXubuntu users out
there :) I did also find eeeXubuntu a bit slow to boot, which is a
hassle given the eee's nature as a portable device. :(