[sf-lug] Desired: Recent CD of Ubuntu, LTS for Monday next for Asus eee 1000HE

jim jim at systemateka.com
Mon Feb 14 13:49:08 PST 2011


    Not only Xwindows but wifi and possibly a few 
other sub-systems. Best thing, seems to me, is to 
try a 10.04 live CD on it and see what happens. 
My guess is that there are solutions that will 
make things work, though I'm not guessing as to 
how immediately. 



On Mon, 2011-02-14 at 13:35 -0800, Ken Shaffer wrote:
> I think you might have problems with the X server defaults and the odd
> screen size of the netbooks on the older distributions.  I think 9.10
> was the first dist that worked out of the box on my msi netbook.
> Lucid would be a long term supported release and would be what I
> recommend.
> 
> On Mon, Feb 14, 2011 at 10:26 AM, jim <jim at well.com> wrote:
>         
>            I'm using ubuntu 10.04 and like it okay and
>         have at least one extra CD lying around.
>         
>         
>         
>         On Mon, 2011-02-14 at 09:19 -0800, Mikki McGee wrote:
>         > Hi, all;
>         >
>         >     I am very tired of eeeBuntu, which seems not very
>         intuitive to
>         > me.
>         >
>         >     I have an Asus eee PC 1000HE  and wish to upgrade to a
>         real
>         > "Ubuntu format screen."
>         >
>         >     I have a Canonical 8.04 Desktop edition CD, that worked
>         > marvelously as long as the laptop computers did (poor
>         computers didn't
>         > last long!!  Which is why the eee)
>         >
>         >     If any one has had experience with that, please note it?
>         >
>         >
>         > Bless All
>         >
>         >
>         > Mikki
>         
>         
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