I won the SAE's e-book download netbook giveaway contest, they sent me a
brand new HP Mini-110. It has everything, came loaded with windows 7 starter.
Seemed like a good candidate for a Linux trial.
I downloaded the latest Ubuntu 9.10 netboot remix, burned iso cds. Tried to
make USB live image with USB creator, in both windows and booting from the
live CD (standard edition) on my tower, but couldn't seem to get it to work.
Unetbootin from sourceforge was able to create a bootable thumb drive, then I
created a bootable 4GB SD. They both boot just fine, but have yet to figure
out how to get the WiFi connection up and running. Webcam works fine in ubuntu.
Everything seems straight forward, tho. I have to say maybe a bit boring with
the NBRM gui.
I also stumbled on
http://moblin.org/ this looks like a much better gui,
although it looks as though they are still developing. They have gotten Intel
on board, supporting their Atom processor, so I expect a bright future. Also
have created a developer network similar to Apple's iPhone for application
developement and distribution.
I'll try to make a bootable Moblin SD after work today.
As a side note, I just upgraded both my tower system and laptop from vista to
windows 7, only problem noticed so far is my epson cx3200 needs another
driver, will have to sort that out with epson tech support.
It appears as though all installed programs came through except for iTunes,
the upgrade advisor informed me prior to upgrade this would need to be
reinstalled. That has been the smoothest windows system upgrade I can recall.
System resource usage is way down, my tower now only uses 30% of installed
memory at the end of system loading, instead of the 45% it needed in Vista.
Everything is faster, rather pleased with the result.
C. Smith
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That is a typical Linux problem with notebooks. There is no standard hardware
configuration for notebooks. Each company designs their own or sells
something they buy from China. If its HP it probably come from China.
Unbuntu has this wireless program called:
NetworkManager Applet 0.7.0.100 AKA auto eth0
Notification area applet for managing your network devices and connections.
Copyright © 2004-2008 Red Hat, Inc.
Copyright © 2005-2008 Novell, Inc.
http://projects.gnome.org/NetworkManager/
http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sources/NetworkManager/
Works great and auto connects to wireless sources.
It will probably have to be recompiled for your brand of netbook.
You could sell it as is with the windows installed and buy an Asuz EeePC
with Linux pre installed and a 40 Gig solid state hard drive. That is what I
would do. I love mine but I only use it when I am on the road. Since there
are 64 Gig USB sticks you don't need no stinking rotating hard drives :)
The EeePC has a very elementary GUI a 5 years old child could figure out.
That kind of limits it ability to install some Linux programs out there.
However it comes with everything I need for on the road use such as;
thunderbird, firefox, gimp, text editor, open office, pdf viewer and paint.
Paul Lamar
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