Bringing Linux to the Masses
You will probably notice that the default Ubuntu install screws up your valuable real estate very badly, everything is just cramped up. We need to do the some tweaks to snug everything into it’s place.
Smaller Fonts:
gconftool-2 –set /apps/nautilus/preferences/desktop_font –type string “Sans 8″
gconftool-2 –set /desktop/gnome/interface/document_font_name –type string “Sans 8″
gconftool-2 –set /desktop/gnome/interface/font_name –type string “Sans 8″
gconftool-2 –set [...]
Now that you installed Ubuntu on your Eee PC, you will soon realize that something is amiss. Wireless doesn’t work, shutdown almost never works, the whole desktop seems to be cramped onto a small screen…etc. Now it’s time to perfect our Ubuntu.
Note: This guide is built on the assumption that you have no swap and [...]
I have posted earlier that the “easy mode” of the Eee PC is like living on the bottom bunker in a basement cell of the Alcatraz. Liberating it to the default Xandros “advanced mode” is just like going out to yard with sweaty inmates, which isn’t saying much.
I initially installed eeexubuntu on that little critter, [...]
My latest gadget-fetish acquisition was the eee pc, and I felt obliged to brag about it’s nimbleness! So I pitted it against a behemoth (19″ Toshiba Qosmio) and a little squirt (Sony Vaio TZ). Poor little E, he seems like a frightened little white mouse!
After a very arduous journey, I finally got my hands on the highly coveted eee pc. I managed to get a 4G model, upgraded to 1GB ram and an 8GB sdhc card for $555 off ebay
Royal HeHe2-ness is a world where free software is valued, nay sought for!! While proprietary software is banished, degraded and ridiculed till the end of times.