Eeebuntu vs Ubuntu
June 14th, 2009Well, I got my wet weekend, so I’m writing this on my Eee PC 701 with Ubuntu replaced by Eeebuntu, a derivative of Ubuntu specially tailored for Eees. So how much of an improvement is it?
| Feature | Ubuntu | Eeebuntu | |
| WiFi | OK | OK | |
| Webcam | OK | OK | |
| Microphone | OK | OK | |
| On/off switch | OK | OK | |
| Closing the lid | OK | OK | |
| Fn F1 | Suspend | OK | OK |
| Fn F2 | Wifi | No | Partial |
| Fn F3/F4 | Brightness | OK | OK |
| Fn F5 | LCD/Monitor | OK | OK |
| Fn F6 | Task Manager | No | OK |
| Fn F7 | Audio Mute | No | No |
| Fn F8/F9 | Audio Volume | No | OK |
Fn F2 is a bit of an odd one – it switches off WiFi, but it doesn’t toggle back on again until you reboot. Skype still isn’t working.
So there’s not a huge difference, but to be honest, Ubuntu 9.04 out of the box works pretty well, so that isn’t surprising.
However,there are a couple of interesting toys – there’s a little ‘Eee PC Tray’ which allows you to switch modes between Power Saver / Reduced Performance / Super High Performance – I’ve not really played with these, so I can’t comment. It also allows you to other things (see the screenshot) like rotate the screen in steps of 90 degrees (why?).
Unless my eyes are deceiving me, Eeebuntu also has tiny tiny fonts, and it certainly has a much more attractive theme than the standard Ubuntu mudbath scheme. So I guess I’ll stick with it for a while 
June 15th, 2009 at 6:07 pm
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June 16th, 2009 at 5:15 am
Instead of comparing eeebuntu vs. Ubuntu, it seems to me that you should be comparing eeebuntu to ubuntu-eee, which are competing buntu eeepc/netbook distros. ubuntu-eee also uses the UNR interface.
http://www.geteasypeasy.com/
I installed ubuntu-eee on my father’s eeepc 900G and all hardware works well and the buntu distro also runs well.
June 16th, 2009 at 6:56 am
The screen rotation is used to make the EeePC into an eBook reader.
July 8th, 2009 at 7:52 am
Just done the same myself – though I moved from Arch to eeebuntu. I must admit I am in the camp that insists on doing an “aptitude purge libmono0 mono-common” though, so the hardware utility isn’t available to me, and is no great loss. Anyway, eeebuntu is pretty capable, with only the start time an issue in comparison with Arch.
July 8th, 2009 at 5:59 pm
slql: that’s the price you pay for being a purist
I thought Stallman had stung Microsoft into issuing a patent amnesty on Mono and Mono was now acceptable again?
March 17th, 2010 at 1:23 pm
netbook zubehoer
Klasse Berichte zum Bereich findet du auf http://www.netbook-community.de.
Hab auf der Page sogar gute Berichte über das Asus Netbook gefunden genau dieses ist im Bereich netbook tutorial ja ein richtiger Newcomer.
Schaut das euch mal an mich hat dieses iPad überredet.
so muss jetzt weiter