Thanks Jim,
I have as you might or might not remember from my earlier postings a Eee PC 900. I have been using it in the Easy Mode as I think many of those things in Wikipedia are hard to understand. I never had problems with any of my Psion's or my Nokia devices but I would get very frustrated with Xandros and not being able to do anything. I got to the point of thinking about having it changed to Windows XP and even got a price on it.
I already sent for the Ubuntu disk have on occasion used it in my DVD player and see what Ubuntu looked like. It looked pretty good but was afraid if I installed it, it might mess something up. But then I thought if I am thinking about going to XP why not put Ubuntu on and see what happens.
I installed Ubuntu last night so far the feel and look at great and easy to use. Reading your post the other day, and I didn't look at who it was from until your post this morning, I thought about Ubuntu again.
It even has the latest Open Office on it and it is compatible with my Office 2007.
I feel much more comfortable with it installed. I have Ubuntu 9.10 installed.
I have an extra disk if you need one.
Thanks,
Bob Rudolph
Steilacoom, Washington
On 26 Nov 2009, Jim Watson-Gove <address truncated> wrote:
> Will save your email address for when I tackle it again.
I have played with several different Linux distributions on both the eeePC and HP MiniNote. (I ran eeXubuntu on my eee for awhile and that took a *lot* of tinkering but its been improved a lot now so I expect its much easier to install and setup).
Im now running Xubuntu on my HP MiniNote and everything just works. I had to download a driver for my wireless card but that involved simply installing the fw-cutter package.
Ubuntu is a very popular distribution so its got a lot of support which is why moving to something based on Ubuntu is a good move.
> My problem is I don't understand repositories etc.
Just think of a repo as a web site where software packages are installed. The package management tools download indices from each repo when you do
an update. There are several different kinds of repos - some might be used to house test versions of packages or packages that are under development (which is why you see some marked as "stable" or "devel", etc).
> As much as I would love compatibility, I wand to try Scribus as
> Publisher is the only program I use that isn't handled in Linux. If I
> can solve that problem, I will be able to move over to Linux on my
> office machine.
I see Scribus is available as a standard package in Ubuntu and Ubuntu-derived distributions. So if you're running eeeBuntu, you should be able to simply startup the package manager and install it.
Aj.
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