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Wombat Diet » Blog Archive » Ubuntu 10.04 On Asus 1000 EEE PC — Sun, 09 May 2010 17:21:39 +0000

[...] It’s more than a year and a half since I bought a netbook, an Asus 1000 EEE PC (first impressions). [...]

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Still No Goldilocks Netbook » Wombat Diet — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 16:28:02 +0000

[...] am back in the market for a laptop and willing to get rid of my too small to type on Asus EEE PC 1000 and my overweight Samsung R60+ (3kg plus adaptor), acquired because I had to [...]

By: It's The Keyboard, Stupid | Wombat Diet

It's The Keyboard, Stupid | Wombat Diet — Thu, 18 Dec 2008 15:05:19 +0000

[...] I was tempted, for a moment, by a LAST ONE! offer on a Q45 with built-in wireless broadband networking, but I stuck to my self-imposed £400 budget. Otherwise, I would certainly have exceeded what I might have spent for one higher spec conventional machine when I bought the Asus EEE 1000. [...]

By: Asus EEE PC 1000 Update | Wombat Diet

Asus EEE PC 1000 Update | Wombat Diet — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 00:40:45 +0000

[...] post a few weeks ago about the Asus EEE PC 1000 is still drawing quite a lot of traffic (dozens of hits) every day. Time for a brief update, pending [...]

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Getting Things Done with TiddlyJournal: Doing It Tomorrow | Wombat Diet — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 03:17:21 +0000

[...] TLA (3 letter acronym) is a great tool but I tend to use it in bouts. I’ve moved it to my Ubuntu powered Asus 1000 notebook where it’s running using WINE. The principle is that I’ll have a little [...]

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My Vista Ubuntu Double Standard | Wombat Diet — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 16:47:58 +0000

[...] showed him Ubuntu on my Asus EEE PC 1000 and said that this was the new future, but I carefully avoided waxing too lyrical. Free software. [...]

By: Eats Wombats

Eats Wombats — Wed, 15 Oct 2008 12:14:18 +0000

There shouldn’t be any problem, you can select the boot device in the bios. I think the 1000H would probably be better for multi-booting (on space grounds) but I was happy to have the longer battery life and greater robustness of the SSD.

It’s probably possible to leave XP on the original 8Gb drive (sda1) and install Ubuntu on the 32Gb drive (sdb1) and you may find a how-to if you dig around.

I’ve posted on launchpad some step by step instructions on moving the /home directory to sdb1, which makes for easier and faster backup and it should permit changing linux distros without affecting one’s data or software (try that with Windows!).

I am not aware of any distros that support the hardware other than Xandros and Ubuntu-eee (which still doesn’t have a new name yet), so for practical purposes I think those are your choices. However, keep an eye on http://www.array.org/ubuntu. Looks like Ubuntu 8.10 will include most of the kernel fixes needed to support the 1000 and if not Adam will release a modified version, at which point Ubuntu-eee may be moot. Right now the only things officially not working are the wireless on/off FN key toggle and the multitouch on the trackpad (which I rarely use). Suspend works but it complains. Hibernation didn’t work when I first tried. The external monitor did but doesn’t now, or didn’t the last time I tried it. All in all, it’s almost there.

If you decide in favour of another distro I’d be interested to know which and why. Ubuntu wins hands down for me, for the community as much as the distro itself.

By: Newb-EEE

Newb-EEE — Wed, 15 Oct 2008 10:48:12 +0000

Good write up, just ordered my pc1000 yesterday, you re-assured me, cant wait!

Question: I am going to be using XP Pro for a lot of things, but (before all you Ubuntu people start hating), I would really like to experiment with various linux distros by booting them from a memory card / usb stick whenever I have the time… Is that a feasible way of learning or is it too slow?

Thanks in advance,
Leon

By: Ubuntu 8.10 Beta: First Impressions | Wombat Diet

Ubuntu 8.10 Beta: First Impressions | Wombat Diet — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 14:35:33 +0000

[...] my Asus 1000 PC needs a specially adapted kernel because Linux doesn’t know about it yet. But the beauty of [...]

By: Eats Wombats

Eats Wombats — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 11:07:06 +0000

Agreed. I am very happy with it apart from the same minor annoyances. Even better, I’m spending more time with Ubuntu. I’ve moved my home directory to the 32gb drive and got rsync backups running via ssh to my ReadyNAS storage–the wireless-N support is terrific. I haven’t got a wireless mouse working yet. I know it works if the mouse is there when you install Ubuntu. I’ll get to it later.

Adam’s working on better touchpad support now and the Fn key support is going to appear upstream in Intrepid.