[clug] Eeebuntu
Kim Holburn
kim.holburn at gmail.com
Mon Jan 5 08:36:54 GMT 2009
Does it suspend and (more importantly) resume like Xandros?
On 2009/Jan/05, at 4:11 AM, Fred Pilcher wrote:
> Happy new year, all. :-)
>
> Just thought I'd report on installing Eeebuntu Standard 2.0 on my
> Eee 901. Long story short - brilliant. It's a real pity to see
> support for and development of the Xandros build for the Eees going
> down the gurgler, but the Eeebuntu guys have done an excellent job.
>
> http://www.eeebuntu.org/
>
> It all worked pretty well OOTB, though I really really really don't
> like Gnome and would love to get KDE 3.5 running on it.
> Nevertheless, with a little tweaking I've got most of my preferred
> software running and Gnome doing most of the stuff that KDE does.
>
> One thing that blew me away was that Compiz works. I really didn't
> think the Eee would have enough grunt to run that eye candy, but it
> works perfectly.
>
> The other surprise was that Kaffeine happily plays SD teevee using
> that little Asus USB tuner that I got last year. It struggles with
> HD, but that's only to be expected. DVD Mpvies are no problem at all.
>
> I thoroughly recommend it. :-)
>
> Cheers,
>
> Fred
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