Ubuntu Eee

If you recall, I bouth an Asus Eee around Christmas time, and I ended up installing Ubuntu on it instead of the custom Xandros it came with.  I’ve been pretty happy with it.  When Hardy Heron came out, I upgraded, and then I started having trouble.  I think I already blogged about it, but basically my Eee was unplugged during the upgrade, which I didn’t know, and it powered off in the middle of the upgrade.  I managed to get everything working, finished the upgrade, went through all the tweaks to get the drivers working, etc., but it just didn’t perform the same anymore.  So I decided to reinstall Ubuntu when I found out about a special version of Ubuntu called Ubuntu Eee.  That’s right, a special version created just for Ultra Mobile PC’s like the Eee.  So I downloaded it today, copied it to a flash drive and installed it.

The install went smoothly, was really simple and quick and when it was done, I’m left with a fully working Asus Eee.  It’s performing very well, even Compiz is working well.  I’ve got wobbly windows and my desktop cube back.  I’ve got my /home partition mounted on an SD card, so after I installed it all my settings and personal data were right where I left them, I love the linux file structure.  So now it’s just a few apt-get install commands to get all my software installed and I’ve got my Eee working better than ever.  It was a bit too easy, almost disappointing.