Ubuntu-eee re-branded

Kinetic^ · 03-01-2009 10:03AM #1

Taken from here. Not too many people happy with the name or logo on the blog. I'm updating atm so will report back with the good and/or bad.

Thomas_S_Hunterson · 03-01-2009 06:44PM

That's awful. It makes it sound retarded or something. There's nothing to link the brand with the eee thing.

Words fail me.

03-01-2009 08:27PM

that would put me off buying an eeePC if I have to see that logo each time!

(given thats the OS I would choose to run)

EKRIUQ · 05-01-2009 01:24AM

It looks a bit like this

Surprised they didn't even get an original name

deadl0ck · 05-01-2009 05:01PM

Kinetic^ - Did you upgrade ?

Kinetic^ · 06-01-2009 12:03AM

deadl0ck wrote: »

Kinetic^ - Did you upgrade ?

Nay, the release was put back to today and I haven't done anything about it. I'm not sure if I will tbh.

Orion · 10-01-2009 06:18PM

Just got an Eee PC and don't like the default install. Should I go with this or just install Ubuntu or a slimmed down variant like Xubuntu or Fluxbuntu?

velocirafter · 10-01-2009 07:03PM

well its still the same functionality as ubuntu-eee just a different look, there is also eeebuntu as an option which i believe is along the same lines. of the standard ubuntu installs xubuntu is the lightest i think.

the only one i've tried is the old ubuntu-eee and that was quite good and user friendly.

Kinetic^ · 10-01-2009 08:02PM

If you can get hold of ubuntu-eee then I'd go for that. Everything works pretty much straight away but if you have any questions then fire away.

Orion · 10-01-2009 08:13PM

I'll be ok installing and fixing it - I'm a Linux user anyway

.

My main problem is that I hate the children's toy interface. I'd rather have a proper desktop. I was thinking of just installing Ubuntu from a USB key - I can create it from my home install. But an optimised one would save me the hassle of turning off unneeded features to save battery power. I'll see if I can find Ubuntu-eee and give it a try.

There's always Rat Poison too - to do away with that pesky rodent requirement

The DE only uses about 80Mb of RAM.

[edit]Found Ubuntu-eee 8.04.1 at Sourceforge - that was the latest version of it right?

zekiel · 10-01-2009 08:52PM

Which eee are you guys using for eee-ubuntu?

Naikon · 11-01-2009 12:53AM

Macros42 wrote: »

There's always Rat Poison too - to do away with that pesky rodent requirement The DE only uses about 80Mb of RAM.

You should have a look at http://xmonad.org/.

Out of all the tiling window managers, this is the one I use daily from now on.
It does require the Haskell compiler and lib as dependencies, but it uses very little memory which is a bonus:pac:

Ratpoisen isn't maintained anymore, so StumpWM is another unstable alternative. Xmonad has the least features, but is the most stable.

Kinetic^ · 11-01-2009 01:42AM

zekiel wrote: »

Which eee are you guys using for eee-ubuntu?

I've got the 1000 which originally had xandros on it.

PogMoThoin · 11-01-2009 02:26PM

I'm running this from my usb key and its great except for the childish logo. Can't get it to install tho as I've only got a 2G Surf and 2GB isn't enough for the install minus /usr and swap, others having the same problem. Trying an older Ubuntu eee later, have the torrent dl'in

Orion · 11-01-2009 03:11PM

Have it up and running - much nicer than the default Xandros.

What partitioning did you guys use? I've just created a single ext2 partition mounted at / with no swap partition. No journalling and no swap means less writes so the disk will last longer. If performance is an issue I can create a swap file later. And there's no need for journalling on this - I won't be storing any important data on it anyway.

PogMoThoin · 11-01-2009 07:33PM

I've Ubuntu eee 8.04.1 running on mine now, much nicer without the stupid Easy Peasy logo. Thats 3 OS's I've tried on this eee PC today, eeeXubuntu, which was nice and fast but too similar to Xandros which I hated, Easy Peasy which was fine except for the childish logo and finally Ubuntu eee which I'm settling on.

I've added a 2GB SD and I've the original 2GB SSD in a single partion in ext3, a 1900MB ext3 partion for /usr and a 64MB swap (although I think I'll remove it to prolong the SD).

Note to anyone installing on a 2G Surf (or even those valuing space with larger eee PC's), select No Localisation during install and it won't install language packs and saves space

Kinetic^ · 24-01-2009 11:52PM

Holy disgusting logo batman!!! I went to install this earlier, the logo booted up and was like........eh no, byes! No way is this ever going on my laptop. Ubuntu-eee is just fine.

towel401 · 24-01-2009 11:55PM

They should have called it Ubeeentu

PogMoThoin · 25-01-2009 12:06AM

The logo is just the desktop background, its easy to change it, all other logo's are Ubuntu's. Boot from Usb and see for yourself. Its actually a lovely distro, has all the nice touches of Intrepid, i'm loving it, although I've changed the network manager in favour of Wicd as new network manager fails to bring up a static ip (defaults to dhcp no matter what) which i need

BTW, I managed to strip down Easy Peasy to fit on a 2GB Surf and 2GB SD card, I just mounted the .iso and removed Open Office and Picassa packages. Can upload it if anyones interested.

towel401 wrote: »

They should have called it Ubeeentu

Its not just Canonical, Asus asked not to use "eee"

25-01-2009 01:12AM

Installed it over the weekend for a mate.

It is a really nice little distro, very easy to use and worked well out of the box. That background pic is just awful though and there are little bits and pieces that are niggling. However, will be running it on my own netbook when I get one!

Orion · 25-01-2009 02:26AM

I like Ubuntueee - anything is better than the default install anyway.

niallb · 25-01-2009 10:41PM

I've a 701 4G. Check out cruncheee! Default theme's a bit dark, but it works really well.

Kinetic^ · 26-01-2009 09:31AM

Here's another distro that's coming out this year. From all the comments on it, it supposedly looks like an iPhone but I don't have one so I can't comment. It looks ok tbh but more interested in performance then anything.

http://www.jolicloud.com/

http://www.flickr.com/photos/jolicloud/3218231449/

For crunchee: http://crunchbanglinux.org/forums/topic/424/cruncheee-81001-release-candidate-1/

Will check it out later.

niallb · 26-01-2009 12:12PM

Hi Kinetic, thanks for adding that link to the eee version of crunchbang.
Crunchee is well past beta now - I just didn't have an URL at the time,
was using my phone, and google returns the link as search post 1.

Make sure you get version 8.10.2 - the beta didn't install the EEE control panel cleanly.
This gives you a set of on/off switches for wireless/SD/bluetooth/webcam to save extra battery.
Works great on the 701 and the 900 anyway. I'll try it on a 1000 tomorrow.

To clarify, crunchbang is a spin of Ubuntu 8.10, so all ubuntu repositories are available.
By default it uses the openbox desktop, so it leaves a lot more memory available for applications.
It's also picked up the Huaweii 220 (3) and the E169 (3) USB 3G modems for me first time,
and offers a config panel that contains all the setup information.

Kinetic^ · 27-01-2009 01:01AM

This is a nice little distro, have made it my main one. It get rids of the fisher price ui but keeps the performance of ubuntueee. Thanks for telling us about it.

Orion · 27-01-2009 02:13AM

Not in a position to torrent it to save bandwidth as the guys asked so I did the next best thing:

Boards mirror

Looks like a very nice distro.

PogMoThoin · 27-01-2009 08:50PM

Now why does Cruncheee fail to even run live from usb key, I've tried a dl from another mirror in case I had a corrupt dl which fails also. Maybe it to do with having a 2G Surf. I've even ran it in Virtualbox on my own pc to make sure the .iso boots, which it does. I've no problem with Ubuntu eee, eeebuntu, Easy Peasy, pupeee etc, why just this? It gets as far as launching Xserver afetr the crunch band loading bar fills and appears to fail, screen goes blank and it just hangs. Tried several times, formatted the usb key and tried again making bootable .iso again, tried .iso from different mirror etc, all no good

Kinetic^ · 27-01-2009 10:40PM

What are you using to load it onto the usb key? I used unetbootin and had zero problems when on live and installed it through that too.

Kinetic^ · 28-01-2009 12:39AM

Ugh! have come across a problem in getting my network shares to display in cruncheee and few others are having the same issue with it and normal crunchbang 8.10.

Really hope someone finds a solution as it's the only issue I have with it.

PogMoThoin · 28-01-2009 01:45AM

Kinetic^ wrote: »

What are you using to load it onto the usb key? I used unetbootin and had zero problems when on live and installed it through that too.

Ya, thats what I'm using. It just doesn't work on my 2G Surf no matter what. I can boot any other distro but this.

niallb · 05-02-2009 12:32PM

Kinetic^ wrote: »

Ugh! have come across a problem in getting my network shares to display in cruncheee and few others are having the same issue with it and normal crunchbang 8.10. Really hope someone finds a solution as it's the only issue I have with it.

Could you describe the problem you're seeing, or link to the discussion on the main site?
I've been mad busy for the last week, but will take a look if I know where the issue lies.

Ubuntu-eee re-branded

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