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#Linux for asus eee pc 701 4g surf install#
The other annoying bug is that the volume control doesn’t work properly on a fresh Ubuntu-EEE install and the volume is set at its highest setting on each start. The Ubuntu-EEE website has instructions on fixing both of these issues. Also, hibernating the machine doesn’t work. The biggest is that when you shut down the EEE it doesn’t’t actually shut down. A fresh install of Ubuntu-EEE on the EEE 4G took just under one minute to boot to a login screen.Ī fresh install of Ubuntu-EEE on the EEE 4G also has a number of small, but annoying, issues. There are a number of tweaks that can be performed on Ubuntu-EEE to speed up the machine’s boot times which have varying degrees of success.
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Unfortunately neither Windows nor Ubuntu-EEE have the excellent boot times of the Xandros version which could be booted in under 10 seconds. Installed, Ubuntu-EEE runs every bit as well as Windows XP on the same machine.
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The Ubuntu-EEE site has good instructions on how to do this.
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The routine is a little harder and requires UNetbootin which is used to transfer the ISO to the SD card. If you don’t have an external optical drive you can also install Ubuntu-EEE from an SD card. Click that and Ubuntu does its normal installation routine and shortly you’ll have Ubuntu installed on your EEE. The Asus EEE will boot into the Live desktop which includes the installation icon on the desktop. Choose the external disc drive and you’re away. As the little EEE boots up hit the Esc key a couple of times until you see a menu for choosing your preferred installation media.
All you need to do is burn the ISO to a CD and reboot the EEE. Installing Ubuntu-EEE is straight forward enough if you have an external optical drive. Of course, things such as Compiz may well be overkill considering the relatively limited power of the EEE. The ISO is a good 670+MB in size and includes everything that a desktop version of Ubuntu would. This is not a stripped down version of Linux. So with a little surfing around the net I found Ubuntu-EEE, an up-to-date (Ubuntu 8.04) version of Ubuntu Linux for the EEE PC. There have been varying reports on which versions of Linux can be run on the Asus EEE with success and, in most cases, the list of tweaks that need to be made before the EEE loves Linux is just too long for the average users. Unless, of course, you’re a long time Linux user and just have to have Linux on your EEE. Of course, the Mini-Note is more powerful than the Asus EEE 4G which carries a 900MHz celeron processor and 512MB of memory, so for the Asus EEE 4G, Windows XP is a far better choice. Vista just drags the machine down and even a cool brushed aluminium casing can’t make up for the speed deficit using Vista.
Certainly better than Vista which HP, in a fit of over enthusiasm, installed on its Mini-Note 2133. Windows XP on the Asus EEE 4G is not a bad choice. I was fortunate enough, thanks to Microsoft, to get my hands on an Asus EEE 4G, the ultra-small version with the 7-inch screen and based on the 701. And this week Microsoft is to hold a press launch for the second generation of the Asus EEE PC in SOuth Africa. Of late, however, Microsoft has got in on the netbook game and Windows XP-based versions of the Asus EEE PC are to be found around town.
And when the EEE PC was first released it was shipped with a version of Xandros Linux. As the name suggests they tend to be not much bigger than a medium-sized novel and are designed to surf the Internet and check email on the move. When it was first released a year ago the tiny Asus EEE PC sparked a new generation of ultra-portable PCs called netbooks.
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