I as well downloaded the "beta" version of the ISO and run off of the CD. I did not install it because wireless did not work. (Should've worked fine with madwifi drivers, but no.....) I can see the my wireless network and various different non-existent bogus networks, but could not connect to mine at all.
Other than that, it run nicely on a sub par laptop. Petri Kory Wnuk wrote: > Did you grab a copy of the stable or latest ISO? I am asking this out > of curiosity with reference to the install key requirement. While I did > not actually install the unstable ISO, and did not use it on a > low-powered machine, I did run from a CD and was definitely impressed > with the sophisticated (I am not sure how else to describe it) look and > feel of the GUI. > > -K > > On Wed, 2009-02-18 at 14:46 -0600, Richards Jr, Edward C. wrote: > >> I have an Asus EeePC with 512 meg ram, of which the video ram is also >> shared, and ran Elive on it from a thumb drive and it worked QUITE well! >> Very snappy, with all of the eye candy running, Compiz, et al. In fact, >> I liked it well enough that I was going to install it on the Eee but >> there was something about needing an install key and I couldn't figure >> out how to implement that, so I stopped. It does just fine with Ubuntu >> 8.10 on it. >> >> Ed Richards >> > > Try and penetrate with our limited means the secrets of nature and you > will find that, behind all the discernible concatenations, there remains > something subtle, intangible and inexplicable. - Albert Einstein > > > > _______________________________________________ > General mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.brlug.net/mailman/listinfo/general_brlug.net > > -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean. _______________________________________________ General mailing list [email protected] http://mail.brlug.net/mailman/listinfo/general_brlug.net
