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- petewhite, on 04/30/2009, -0/+21UNR has made my Aspire One with an SSD usable again and it supports my 3G Data adapter out of the box - its a really impressive release.
- TrevorBradley, on 04/30/2009, -0/+20I just installed Jaunty UBR last night on my wife's Asus EEE 901. (Replacing Ubuntu EEE 8.04, which was a good distro). I also finally got around to wiping out my Xandros backup partition (UBR really does need the full 4GB and not just 3.2GB)
HOT DAMN ext4 boots fast. It really is as fast as they say.
Only a few glitches. Camera doesn't work yet. Wireless worked great. A bit of a hassle getting bluetooth and nfs working. But it's coming along really well. - newspimp, on 04/30/2009, -0/+19That's odd. I just got a eeePC 901 in yesterday and went through and flashed it with a full install of UNR 9.04, wiping out the Xandros crap.
I had to go into the BIOS and enable the camera and bluetooth, but once I did, both worked perfectly and natively with no tweaking needed. - TrevorBradley, on 04/30/2009, -0/+15UNR is just a mechanism for accessing your computer's apps, much like Gnome DO. At worst, it's a nicer interface for people using touchpad mice that are less accurate than external mice.
(I didn't dig you down by the way. It's your EEE, install what brings you joy!) - TrevorBradley, on 04/30/2009, -0/+12The article also says Cheese works right out of the box.
I may have to enable it in the BIOS.. I know I had to turn on Bluetooth a while back... let me check for that.
EDIT: Yup! It was just disabled in the BIOS... Ooo that works great.. Thanks! - TrevorBradley, on 04/30/2009, -0/+9I switched from Xandros when they put out a firefox update that totally screwed the system.
UNR has gotten a LOT better.. I sense they're giving and are going to give far superior support than Xandros ever will.
It's worth getting out a USB key and trying out a Live boot (without installing over XP) isn't it? :) - blackhole82, on 04/30/2009, -1/+10I'm getting a massive clue right now.
- newspimp, on 04/30/2009, -0/+7Netflix not supporting something isn't a hardware support problem, it's a Netflix is heavily invested in MS technology problem. As far as the webcam, a flash with UNR on the eee901 (along with enabling the webcam in the BIOS; the Linux ones come with it turned off in the BIOS by default) and it worked perfectly, along with everything else in it, with the possible exception of the power button (per Ubuntu's own documentation), but I seem to recall that working even. I'll have to go back and check it.
Definitely give UNR 9.04 a try, if nothing else just booting from the USB stick and seeing if it all works. Xandros is a hunk of crap and I'm not surprised stuff didn't work. - leandrotami, on 04/30/2009, -2/+10I don't see the need of a special Ubuntu targeted to netbooks. I installed Xubuntu in my Asus EeePC 4GB a long time ago and I install/uninstall all the programs I need manually. The fact is I see my "netbook" as a whole computer, not as an Web-browsing device as the name may suggest.
- StuartGibson, on 06/14/2009, -0/+8I agree with you, but I found the NBR to be much better suited to the Mini 9, giving it a nice "dashboard" like interface that seems much better suited to the low resolution screen. As Tervor said, it's much easier to hit the targets with the small, slightly jumpy mouse.
Also, they finally managed to make brown and orange look good. - tlogank, on 04/30/2009, -0/+5I was very impressed with this when I booted my Asus 1000HE to it via USB. I plan on setting up a dual-boot between this and Windows 7.
- cornlucas, on 04/30/2009, -0/+5I installed this on my s10e the other day. It detected everything and runs excellent. Camera, bluetooth, WiFi, audio... all perfect from the get go.
- BarmyNick, on 04/30/2009, -0/+4I bought an Acer Aspire one yesterday, I wiped XP and installed UNR.
Running very smooth with no problems, also got spotify rolling under Wine. - kecher, on 04/30/2009, -0/+4That is enough for you, and for the other geeks here including me, but Canonical is primarily shooting for a consumer market, so it is necessary that the defaults are like this.
The nice thing about it is that it doesn't have to be a compromise actually, it is a full Ubuntu system underneath and they made it very easy to switch into classic desktop mode, so in the end you don't loose any of the flexibility of a standard desktop.
I've been fiddling with it for less than a week now and I actually find it more usable in the "netbook" mode because I get more screen real estate like that and it doesn't actually limit you in any way, you can still run any program, install/uninstall software, play in bash terminal, whatever you want.. - TrevorBradley, on 04/30/2009, -0/+3Just remember to give UNR about 4GB for it's root partition. You can install it on less (3.2GB) but might hit problems installing software.
- ThantiK, on 04/30/2009, -0/+3Just wait a couple weeks for eeebuntu - they'll have all the quirks fixed and they typically have a lot of good tools to use even for non eee netbooks.
- techdever, on 04/30/2009, -0/+4I'm getting a raging clue...
- Ichiban1081, on 04/30/2009, -0/+3I installed UNR on my wifes Aspire One and boot up times are just as fast as linpus. The only reason why linpus stayed on my wifes Aspire One was because of the boot time and she was quickly able to get to her documents for school. Now with UNR I can make sure she has the latest apps and also a nicer interface.
One reason why I know its good is when I asked my wife "so how is it running UNR so far." she gave me the shrug and said "no problems at all it just works". This coming from the woman who only used Windows majority of her life. Im pretty proud of the effort the developers have put into this OS. - kecher, on 04/30/2009, -0/+3The camera problem happened to me on eeepc 701(4G). It seems that it got disabled somehow by Ubuntu installer. Anyway you just need to go back into BIOS and re-enable it.
The second problem I experienced with UNR is very slow home screen (eeepc and i950 specific it seems). That one has been fixed already so if you are experiencing the same problem, the solution is here: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/jaunty/+source/l ...
Once I got this sorted out, I must say it looks like a very solid release, the small screen UI does not only look good, but is pretty functional and pleasant to use. - rsechris, on 05/01/2009, -0/+3I plan on getting a netbook soon and this article validated my selection on an OS.
- BeerRules, on 04/30/2009, -0/+2I installed the RC a couple days before the official release. Needless to say I am happy, the only things I noticed was that some of the applications were messed up which were preinstalled, like part of the app being off the screen, and no way to put it on the screen. Also I noticed that there are issues dealing with wireless WPA2 Personal. Over all though they are all fixable or unimportant.
- TrevorBradley, on 04/30/2009, -0/+2Bluetooth wasn't a connectivity issue... The EEE saw my mouse fine. But I needed to install bluez-compat to get my Microsoft bluetooth mouse to work to bind, something that wasn't an issue with ubuntu-eee 8.04.
It was simple once I figured it out, but I was hoping for a better "out of the box" solution.
One other hint for people who get frustrated being asked for a password every time they log into their wireless network. Go to your wireless connection and "share network connection with all users"... no more password! - TrevorBradley, on 04/30/2009, -0/+1Verified that the webcam works out of the box on UNR Jaunty.... (Just enable the camera in the BIOS)
Beware the "drivers aren't Linux's fault" argument. I read a beautiful post (I believe on Slashdot) that Linux's driver issues (with manufactures like ATI) may not be Linux's fault, but they are Linux problem.
UNR has been trying to make the next netbook experience for users. They're ALMOST there. - pHr34kY, on 04/30/2009, -0/+2I just bought the linux one. Wiped Linpus and install Ubuntu NBR.
- oobuntu, on 05/01/2009, -0/+2there seems to be a trend here. why don't the manufacturers get it?
- cannonball, on 04/30/2009, -0/+1I have the same computer. The 6 cell battery is very handy for playing videos on long flights. I currently have Eeebuntu Standard running on it now, and it works great right from install.
www.eeebuntu.org - jay019, on 05/04/2009, -0/+1my clue is bigger than your clue.
*oh the shame* - aserer511, on 09/11/2009, -0/+1HP's MIE isn't bad-it's just too tied down
- oobuntu, on 05/01/2009, -0/+1it's a shame about the eee Xandros OS. in fact, nothing boots quite as fast (haven't tried 9.04 ext4 yet tho), hibernate works well, and the easy launcher thing has been copied by ubuntu and HP (rather nicely it seems) so i think they had the right idea. they made an OS that people could use without needing to understand it.
what they didn't do particularly well is the lack of iptables support, slow to update a critical samba bug that allowed root shell to unpriviliged users, sub-standard wireless support, and real lack of choice when it comes to adding packages. maybe if Asus had approached canonical in the first place then we could have seen a cool tailor made OS that we wouldn't all have to blow away in order to get decent package choice. - oobuntu, on 05/01/2009, -0/+1it is a shame and i'm waiting for it to be fixed while keeping an eye on launchpad https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+b ...
however if you're desperate there is a workaround kernel package you can install (read the bug page for more details) - rpgmakr, on 05/01/2009, -0/+1"HOT DAMN ext4 boots fast."
In ext3 the boot time in 9.04 is a lot faster than in previous releases so I'm guess is more than just the FS, they did move some other things :) - bceverly, on 04/30/2009, -0/+0Dugg for the phrase "having a holding throbber in place while loading icons would help"... :-)
- EtherGnat, on 04/30/2009, -1/+1"Netflix not supporting something isn't a hardware support problem, it's a Netflix is heavily invested in MS technology problem."
It doesn't make any difference if it's an Ubuntu or Netflix problem. The sad fact is it's MY problem if I want to be able to run Netflix, or any other hardware or software that is difficult if not impossible to run under Linux.
I'm not slamming Linux/Ubuntu, it's just a fact that some things aren't going to work. I'm really excited about UNR and will be trying it on my just-ordered Dell Mini 9 along with OS X and Windows 7. There's a really good chance it'll end up being my OS of choice. - computershack, on 04/30/2009, -3/+3Shame in releasing 9.04 and the first official netbook remix that they managed to completely screw up the drives for Intel video chipsets that virtually all netbooks use. On my laptop, it's painful having to watch the jerkiness of a window minimising or maximising.
- tux821, on 05/23/2009, -0/+0Damn I love this netbook remix so much.
Already had it running on my Acer Aspire One 110AB, .. now also have it running on my big AMD64 desktop (1680x1050) computer (post installed the remix packages on my Ubuntu Gnome desktop), lolllll!
With those big icons it's very easy, and fast, to get to, and run my favorite Desktop apps.
On my AMD64 desktop I only miss the top right window cross to close my full screen windows, but I'm sure to figure out where I can configure this part too. Ubuntu (Netbook) Remix rocks! - Josh8178, on 04/30/2009, -4/+3I'm sorry but, until Adobe start making flash player decent for Linux, this is not going to be very efficient for me. The Atom would handle flash very decently in Windows XP, however in Ubuntu it just runs choppily and wastes power like a gas stove with the window open. I love Ubuntu, and I love the Netbook remix, everything else about it is a fantastic experience. but until I can watch flash and browse sites that use a lot of flash content without sacrificing quality or battery life, XP is sticking on my netbook. I only use it for typing notes and web browsing, but I want to be able to watch youtube and not have my genitals burned. kthxbai.
- 7aji, on 05/01/2009, -2/+1A netbook?? Just install Vista on it and it will make your life much easier!! /s
I've just installed 9.04 on my desktop and was impressed with the performance. Gonna try it on my Eee704 this weekend :D - U83RMENSCH, on 04/30/2009, -3/+2Thats funny cuz we sell the Eee PC's at Toys R us.. :) ( i work there :P )
- kolop1, on 04/30/2009, -6/+2The Problem with Linux on a netbook is the hardware support. I had Xandros on my EEE PC and switched to XP because I could not watch netflix, my web cam did not work on it and a few other things I can't remember right now.
I wanted to keep linux, but it was just too frustrating. - Azathothh, on 04/30/2009, -10/+1meh
- bashmohandesx, on 04/30/2009, -16/+0WTF just use either XP home or Windows 7 Beta or RC next week, and save the time wasted on fixing these crappy distros
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