Re: [ilugd] Ubuntu 8.04 on an Asus EeePC 701

2008-05-30 Thread Shiv
be the correct apples-to-apples comparison. With Warm Regards, Shivkumar linux user no: 450769 blog: outbackwifi.blogspot.com profile: www.linkedin.com/in/shivjags --- On Fri, 30/5/08, sudhanwa Jogalekar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From: sudhanwa Jogalekar [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [ilugd] Ubuntu 8.04

Re: [ilugd] Ubuntu 8.04 on an Asus EeePC 701

2008-05-30 Thread Nalin Savara
Hi ILUG-D-members Also Shivkumar... On Fri, May 30, 2008 at 11:50 PM, Shiv [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sure, I wouldnt buy the Asus 701 if I werent in the market for a UMPC. Comparing it with the Fujitsu U1010 or HP Mini-Note 2133 or the Sony Vaio UX490 would be the correct apples-to-apples

Re: [ilugd] Ubuntu 8.04 on an Asus EeePC 701

2008-05-29 Thread sudhanwa Jogalekar
[snip] How much did it cost in India? did you check if Eee PC 900 is also available there? share some info about how did you make USB stick bootable; people install ubtuntu even on SD cards. later have 20GB and its hard to get hold of one in UK. I think there are better configurations

Re: [ilugd] Ubuntu 8.04 on an Asus EeePC 701

2008-05-28 Thread Shiv
--- On Wed, 28/5/08, Narendra Nag lt;[EMAIL PROTECTED]gt; wrote: gt; Did you need to do anything specual, or did gt; you follow the instructions on the wiki Hi, Thanks. The installation itself is an adventure of sorts. Since the EeePC does not have an optical drive, I had the option of using

Re: [ilugd] Ubuntu 8.04 on an Asus EeePC 701

2008-05-28 Thread Yashpal Nagar
On Wed, May 28, 2008 at 9:12 AM, Shiv [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- On Wed, 28/5/08, Narendra Nag [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Did you need to do anything specual, or did you follow the instructions on the wiki Hi, Thanks. The installation itself is an adventure of sorts. Since the EeePC does

Re: [ilugd] Ubuntu 8.04 on an Asus EeePC 701

2008-05-28 Thread Shiv
gt;--- On Wed, 28/5/08, Yashpal Nagar lt;[EMAIL PROTECTED]gt; wrote:gt;How much did it cost in India? did you check if Eee PC 900 is also gt;available there? Hi, I got the 701 for Rs 17000 + 800 (upgrade to 1GB RAM) from Tradelink Computers in nehru place. The 900 is not yet available. one can

[ilugd] Ubuntu 8.04 on an Asus EeePC 701

2008-05-27 Thread Shiv
Hi, For the information of the mildly curious, I have installed Ubuntu 8.04nbsp; on an Asus EeePC 701 successfully. It even has compiz-fusion running quite well! For those who came in late, the eeepc is this --gt;: http://eeepc.asus.com/global/ a) Everything is on a 4G SSD b) my data is on an