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Extreme updated cuteness

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My eee pc got a new OS! [@heidi #45870 and @heidi #51382] It's soooo cute and all handy & up to date! Asus stopped supporting this model (eee pc 900) shortly after I bought it and I was stuck in firefox 2.0, which made the all-important google docs unhappy. Now I have Chrome, firefox, cheese, and all kinds of other goodies.

(Interesting how estrip.org is in the bookmarks toolbar!)

Thank you!!!!

69 words · edited Sep 8, 2010

💬 7 comments

  1. paul ·

    Of course I had to add that! It seems pretty responsive.

  2. uncutsaniflush ·

    Since @paul and cheese are mentioned I'm going to guess Fedora!!??

  3. paul ·

    I do love Fedora and they do have an eeepc build, but its actually ubuntu netbook edition :::link::: as I thought it would be easier for @heidi to maintain.

  4. heidi ·

    It's very speedy. It feels so modern in comparison.

  5. uncutsaniflush ·

    @heidi - I hope you enjoy yr new and improved eee.

    @paul - shame on me for thinking that you put fedora on everything.

    I was farting around with my eee 900a and right now it is distro-less. Maybe I'll try fedora netbook or unbuntu netbook on it.

  6. paul ·

    Its totally worth it. She had a 900 and it made it work like a completely new device. I installed it by putting the ubuntu netbook live CD on a USB drive and booting off of that. I have it still if you need it.

  7. uncutsaniflush ·

    @paul - thanks for the offer but being the Linux distro whore that I am I put Ubuntu Studo - Puppy Edition on the 900a after I commented last. I've been using it on my mom-in-law's old box (celeron 2 ghz) as as music studio with decent results. The power supply recently blew on the celeron box so i'm using a psu from another box externally since I don't have another micro-atx psu floating around at home.

    Why use the puppy edition instead of the full blown Ubuntu Studio? In a word - latency. It uses a real time kernel and on the celeron box with Ubuntu Studio the latency is around 23.9 for Ardour and with the puppy edition it is around 5.8. And, of course, less latency is better latency.

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