My Dell OptiPlex Linux server was getting louder and hotter in its old age. For the past three years it has been running 24×7 as my media server in the closet. The fan in the power supply had started to whine (especially when the CPU was maxed), and I already lost one hard drive to [...]
Archive of posts filed under the eeepc category.
Leaping with the Lucid Lynx
Ubuntu 10.4 (Lucid Lynx) was released last week so over the weekend I completed three installs. I did a clean install (from a USB thumb drive) onto my sandbox EeePC 4G Surf that was running an older build of Chrome. Ubuntu now calls this smaller build the UNE (netbook edition) instead of the UNR (netbook [...]
Google’s Chromium OS is, uh, a browser
Google’s forthcoming Chromium OS has gotten a lot of buzz recently. My trusty old EeePC 4G Surf has become quite the sandbox for trying out different netbook operating systems, so of course now it is running Chromium. I downloaded the latest of Hexxeh’s Chrome builds, copied the image onto a 1gb thumb drive, and then [...]
Kickstarting the Karmic Koala
Last week, Ubuntu 9.10 (Karmic Koala) was officially released so over this past weekend I went ahead and upgraded my server to the new version. As with my prior upgrades, I ran the process remotely over SSH (my server is a headless box sitting in a closet) and it was very smooth. The only minor [...]
Ubuntu 9.10 netbook remix
Jolicloud just wasn’t cutting it for me, so now that the beta of Ubuntu 9.10 (Karmic Koala) has been released, I’ve put it on my EeePC 4G Surf (the fourth distro I’ve run on that netbook this year). Ooooo, pretty: I haven’t had a lot of time to play/tweak, but so far all the important [...]
Jolicloud on my EeePC
Jolicloud transforms your netbook into a sophisticated web device that taps into the cloud to expand your computing possibilities. The web already hosts a significant part of our lives: mails, photos, videos, and friends are already somewhere online. Jolicloud was built to make the computer and web part of the same experience. I’ve been playing [...]
I’ve been Joliclouded!
Since my 900A is now my “main” netbook, I’ve been using my older 4G Surf to experiment with other distros. Last week I gave Tiny Core Linux a try: it’s only 10mb in size and loads entirely into RAM, leaving the 4gb SSD free for storage (and applications). It was definitely fast, and a neat [...]
Mint-Eee fresh
How many more Eee puns can I come up with for my blog posts? The Windows 7 release candidate just wasn’t cutting it for me on my EeePC 900A. It looked nice, but Windows is just not meant to be crammed into 4gb of hard drive space. Even after vLite’ing the install I barely had [...]
My new Eee PC 900A and Windows 7
Last week I stumbled on a deal over at Woot!: a refurbished Asus EeePC 900A (1gb RAM, 4gb SSD) for $160. My addiction to shiny things had me clicking on the “Buy” button before I could stop myself. Considering my original 4G Surf cost twice that (albeit over a year ago) it was too good [...]
Jumping onto the Jaunty Jackalope
Ubuntu 9.04 (Jaunty Jackalope) was released this week and for the first time included a specific version for netbooks. It took a long time to download (apparently everyone is trying to get it), but once I had the image I created a bootable USB stick and then used it to boot my EeePC into the [...]
