I just installed the newly released Ubuntu 9.10 NBR (Netbook remix edition), code named Karmic Koala, onto my Asus eeePC 1000H. I was running previous version of Ubuntu on it before that, but I did the clean install instead of upgrade.
Everything worked right out of the box, including wireless. I think in previous version, I had to fiddle with it slightly.
One configuration change I made right away was to enable two finger scrolling, which was easily done in Mouse preference.
The performance on my netbook is way better than it was on the previous version of Ubuntu. I used to experience a little bit of lag while scrolling a long web page, but that's no longer an issue.
I had small issue enabling Japanese input. For those who don't need any additional language, it shouldn't be a problem.
glad you had a good experience. I installed Ubuntu 9.04 (Jaunty Jackalope) on an HP laptop and was not impressed. For some reason the mouse cursor would disappear all the time and wouldn't come back unless I did a reboot. It was nice that most of the stuff worked out of the box, but it is still a little buggy.
I put a 700MB build of XP on a netbook and it rocks.
I've been running Jaunty 64bit on my desktop for a while, and it's been working great for me (I am using it now). I guess it still depends on what hardware you have.
Just gave it a quick try on an SD card for my netbook. Booted up reasonably quickly, but didn't find any tools to help configure wireless and the codecs I use for video were not available. If I'm looking for a quick boot option, I think I'll stick with puppy linux 4.3 which easily handles both of the above issues for me.
skibum43 said: Just gave it a quick try on an SD card for my netbook. Booted up reasonably quickly, but didn't find any tools to help configure wireless and the codecs I use for video were not available. If I'm looking for a quick boot option, I think I'll stick with puppy linux 4.3 which easily handles both of the above issues for me.
Spent a little more time with it and was able to get my wireless working and installed VLC to play my video files. Installed it on my MSI Wind as a dual boot with win xp. Nice quick bootup with more utility than puppy 4.30 for when I don't need a specific xp program.
skibum43 said: skibum43 said: Just gave it a quick try on an SD card for my netbook. Booted up reasonably quickly, but didn't find any tools to help configure wireless and the codecs I use for video were not available. If I'm looking for a quick boot option, I think I'll stick with puppy linux 4.3 which easily handles both of the above issues for me.
Spent a little more time with it and was able to get my wireless working and installed VLC to play my video files. Installed it on my MSI Wind as a dual boot with win xp. Nice quick bootup with more utility than puppy 4.30 for when I don't need a specific xp program. I am glad you gave it more chance.
I am still waiting for Japanese input bug to be sorted out. If it wasn't for that, it would've been near perfect for me.
One tweak I would like to make is to default boot to xp. It looked relatively easy to do this with Grub under previous versions of Ubuntu. However, Ubuntu 9.10 uses Grub2 and the process is different, but I think I'll be able to figure it out.
jolma
Senior Member
posted: Nov. 3, 2009 @ 8:00p
I did this with Grub(1) on Ubuntu 8.*, you sudo gedit a text file /boot/grub/menu.lst and change the default boot choice. Not sure if it is similar with Grub2, but with Grub it was easy enough.
jolma said: I did this with Grub(1) on Ubuntu 8.*, you sudo gedit a text file /boot/grub/menu.lst and change the default boot choice. Not sure if it is similar with Grub2, but with Grub it was easy enough.
Doesn't work that way anymore - menu.lst is gone. See The Grub 2 Guide
I believe you have to edit /etc/default/grub and the run sudo update-grub2 which automatically updates /boot/grub/grub.cfg, but I haven't tried it yet.
Figured out how to change the boot order of Ubuntu 9.10 I tried to make this as simple as possible for Linux noobs like myself because many of the web pages I searched don't cover the simple things ( like pressing Alt-F2 to get the run dialog or having to access the protected files via the command gksudo in order to edit them).
Alt-F2 to bring up run dialog type "gksudo gedit /etc/default/grub" run
Changed GRUB_DEFAULT=0 to GRUB_DEFAULT=5 (Windows xp was the 6th and last item in my boot list and therefore options run from 0 to 5, will probably differ for you) Saved file Alt-F2
type "sudo update-grub" ( automatically updates /boot/grub/grub.cfg file) run
worked like a charm and netbook showed xp as default on next boot
I wouldn't take the chance. Looks like it hasn't been updated in close to a year.
"WARNING! If you are unlucky, this tool could make your system unable to start. USE IT ON YOUR OWN RISK! Note that sum might not work correctly with recent versions of Ubuntu. See this launchpad question for more info."
Thanks for the grub instructions for making XP default. I have 9.10 installed, but i'm not messing with it that much yet. I'll install the new Linux Mint when it comes out this month or next month. It's a much more polished version of Ubuntu's releases.
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