Comments on: Gutsy Gibbon + Eee PC = A Dream

By: Xin Xin

Xin Xin — Sat, 19 Apr 2008 15:34:16 +0000

Hello Popagandhi, thx for sharing…. I am interested about what you said, that it’s possible to change the language of Default Linux Xandros from Mandarin to English, just like you, I bought an EEE PC from Taiwan and it’s using such Mandarin and I havent got any clue how to change it. It’s lucky for me that I did successfully change the default language of OpenOffice from Mandarin tO English, but still couldnt find the way to change it’s Xandros’ language …. I would really appreciate that you can help my friend … :-)

Thanks in advance ……..

By: kevin

kevin — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 08:05:47 +0000

http://ubuntu-eee.tuxfamily.org/index.php5?title=How_to_partition_the_hard_drive

btw this page here suggests ext3 with a swap partition.

By: kevin

kevin — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 08:02:30 +0000

hmm strange thought though.. why can’t u (8GB of space) create a 1gb partition to write the iso file to. then boot off that parition and THEN install on your root partition… jus a tot..

By: Charles Frith

Charles Frith — Sat, 08 Mar 2008 03:50:49 +0000

I’ll have a few questions about this if you make it to the Jing. :)

By: Popagandhi » Hands On with the 9″ Eee Pc

Popagandhi » Hands On with the 9″ Eee Pc — Wed, 05 Mar 2008 06:30:37 +0000

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By: popagandhi

popagandhi — Thu, 28 Feb 2008 06:13:21 +0000

@G Chai well as you pointed out.. the potential sluggishness! When you carry out the installation out of a flash drive, one of the first steps involves booting into the Live version of Ubuntu out of the flash drive.. and my god it is SLOWWWWWWWW. I don’t suppose running it entirely off the flash drive would perform significantly better than that. At least after a regular install, it works fine. Maybe a leaner linux distro might do better if that’s the main usage you have in mind. Again, for that pendrivelinux.com is unbeatable in terms of resources and instructions. :) Good luck!

By: G. Chai

G. Chai — Thu, 28 Feb 2008 04:15:57 +0000

Thanks for the nice tutorial. I might try it one of these days.

Wondering why not run Ubuntu (or another flavor of Linux) from a pen drive or an SDHC card. Other than potential sluggishness of such a system, do you see any reason why one shouldn’t do it? I am considering doing that on my Eee PC with 4 GB storage (upgraded to 2 GB RAM already). What are your thoughts on this?

By: Jack

Jack — Fri, 22 Feb 2008 12:31:14 +0000

Wow, I want one of these so bad. I debated getting one with my tax returns. I regret not getting it, and will be getting one ASAP.

-Jack Lhasa

By: swissfondue

swissfondue — Mon, 18 Feb 2008 15:21:04 +0000

OSX 10.4 on EeePC: http://tigeroneeepc.wikispaces.com/

By: javajive

javajive — Sat, 16 Feb 2008 15:23:43 +0000

I’ve seriously considered getting one of these - they’re around 4.5jt in Indonesia ($480). I believe they’re around $400 in the States and hopefully I’ll be heading home in June for a break. Novita and I have a MBP and a MB, but I often crave something I can throw in my bag for watching movies (have many dvds ripped already), getting online while out and about, and for getting some basic work done when I don’t wanna lag the Macbook Pro around.

Good to hear you were able to install Ubuntu, I’d most likely follow suit.

Do you carry around a small external drive, or do you simply use the installed memory and maybe the occasional USB?

How do you find the battery life? Wireless alright?

And lastly - do you feel it’s worth picking one up for the reasons I’ve mentioned? (does it make sense to bother watching movies on it?)

Hope all is well - too bad we didn’t meet up in Java! :)