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Kubuntu 8.10 on the ASUS EeePC 901 Mon, 12/15/2008 - 22:41 — nathan

So, ASUS announced that 2009 would bring an end to the Linux based EeePC variants, and all those versions with screens smaller than 10 inches. Well, I love my 701, and have used it a huge amount in the year that I've had it, but I did want the advantage of a larger screen, a bit more processing power and mainly more disk space. So I've got a 901 (in black of course) and within a few minutes realised how user friendly Ubuntu/Kubuntu are compared with the Xandros installed by default.

Ubuntu 8.10 (Intrepid Ibex) on the ASUS EeePC (701) Mon, 11/03/2008 - 13:09 — nathan

So, it's about 6 months since last time I wrote an article on getting stock Kubuntu running on the eeePC 701, and guess what - there's a new release with new bugs and work arounds.

Kubuntu KDE4 on the Eee Mon, 05/05/2008 - 21:53 — nathan

Hardy Heron is here. I was waiting for this release since I was home at Easter a few weeks ago and got my Eee a RAM upgrade. I've now got 2GB in there and really no need for a swap partition any more, so I wanted to do a fresh install and decided to wait until I could install Kubuntu 8.04.

Motivations and Opinions of KDE4

Ubuntu on the EeePC (Part 2) Thu, 02/28/2008 - 22:16 — nathan

After a week or so using Ubuntu on my EeePC, the only times that I had booted back to the original Xandros install were when I had forgotten to hit the ESC key during boot to select the SD card to boot instead of the internal SSD. I decided that it was time I got rid of the installed Xandros properly and just used Ubuntu from the internal SSD. Again the install went really smoothly, using the USB CD drive as before, I did however make a backup of the SSD image before I started.

The future of data storage and cool gadgets. Sun, 11/18/2007 - 15:28 — nathan

I've been reading the news on slashdot about the amazing new solid state drives that are being released at the moment. However it wasn't until today when I went to one of my favourite on-line computer stores (actually looking at the page layout for inspiration for some html I was working on) when I saw this on the home page: Samsung 32GB 2.5" PATA drive. At last, not just talk or US only products, they have arrived here!