Asus EeePC 4G 701 Ubuntu and Netbook Remix 9:04 After several months of using ubuntu-eee
version 8.04 I decided to upgrade to 8.10 and the online update did not go very well. I took the opportunity to leap to move to the new Ubuntu Netbook Remix 9:04
a few days ago issued by
Canonical .
My Asus Eee PC 700 netbook a
G4 is not a very powerful machine, but it certainly is a very versatile machine, it weighs little and is really small.
The setup is very simple, just downloaded from the Ubuntu
img file formats, plus a special utility to write the image on your USB stick of at least 1 Gbyte. (see guide
)
inserted the pen into any USB port and change the boot order to do from the pen of the first hard disk.
The setup is not at all a problem, I installed all the 4 GB SSD drive, 128 Mbytes of swap allocanto. I did not use the extra sd card in my possession, as it gave me problems when you restart the system, with constant warnings of system is not closed properly and then the corruption of the disc itself (in fact this is the second attempt).
The first impact is with a very slow, the problem is known
just make the following changes:
"Desktop performance of netbook-launcher is slow using the default settings. To fix this launch gconf- editor and enable / apps / netbook-launcher / force_low_graphics. " done this for all users that you intend to use you can go to customize your system. Personally
:
$ sudo apt-get update $ sudo apt-get install ssh mc edit adding those repositories are not enabled by default, then updates.
4 Gbytes are few, but if you have ideas clear up what a netbook is more than sufficient, relevant I delete a lot of stuff:
$ sudo apt-get remove totem totem-common totem-gstreamer totem-mozilla totem-plugins $ sudo apt-get remove rhythmbox $ sudo apt-get remove evolution evolution-common evolution-data-server evolution-documentation-en-indicator evolution evolution-plugins evolution-webcal The microphone does not work by default but you just fiddle with the settings for mixer solve the problem.
To enable the management of the Fn + F2 Wireless Hotkeys for
I installed eee-control , taking him from: $ wget
http://greg.geekmind.org/eee-control/deb/eee- control_0.9.2_all ~ jaunty.deb Open Office on a system does not need, but that's just my personal opinion:
$ sudo apt-get remove openoffice.org openoffice.org-base openoffice.org-calc openoffice.org-common openoffice.org -core openoffice.org-draw openoffice.org-evolution openoffice.org-filter-MobileDevice openoffice.org-gnome openoffice.org-gtk openoffice.org-help-en-us openoffice.org-impress openoffice.org-java-common openoffice.org-math openoffice.org-style-human openoffice.org-writer make space
$ sudo apt-get remove brltty
$ sudo apt-get remove $ wodim
sudo apt-get remove - purge tomboy
$ Sudo apt-get remove - purge libdeskbar-tracker tracker libtrackerclient0
$ sudo apt-get remove gnome-pilot
$ sudo apt-get remove - purge mono-common
$ sudo apt- get remove compiz-core desktop-effects
$ sudo apt-get remove cellwriter
I proceed to install what you need:
$ sudo apt-get install mc $ sudo apt-get install ssh $ sudo apt-get install powertop iotop iftop latencytop $ sudo apt-get install cups-pdf $ sudo / etc / init.d / cups restart Enables multimedia repository: $ sudo wget
http://www.medibuntu.org/sources.list.d/jaunty.list - output-document = / etc / apt / sources.list.d / medibuntu.list $ sudo apt-get update $ sudo apt-get install medibuntu-keyring $ sudo apt-get update $ sudo update-apt-xapian-index what you need to build on the fly something
$ sudo aptitude install build-essential support java:
$ sudo apt-get install sun-java6-jre sun-java6-plugin sun-java6-fonts what you need to chat:
$ sudo apt-get install emesene $ wget http://www.skype.com/go/getskype-linux-ubuntu $ sudo dpkg-i skype * support flash or nothing youtube:
$ sudo apt-get install adobe-flashplugin lastfm to listen to some music:
$ sudo apt-get install lastfm well now the eeepc is perfect for browsing the Internet! and you still have plenty of space available:
mrbyte @ eeepc: ~ $ df-h File System Size Used Avail. Use% Mounted on / dev/sda2 3.6 G 2.1 G 1.3 G 63% / 245m 245m 0% 0 tmpfs / lib / init / rw varrun 245m 245m 112K 1% / var / run varlock 245m 245m 0 0% / var / lock udev 245m 245m 148K 1% / dev tmpfs 245m 245m 76K 1% / dev / shm lrm 245m 243m 1% 2.4 M / lib/modules/2.6.28-11-generic/volatile mrbyte @ eeepc: ~ $