Alternatives to Kubuntu for the Eee PC?

Wed, 22 Oct 2008 20:07:36 +0000

Currently I have Kubuntu 8.04 (Hardy) installed on my Eee PC. Version 8.10, the Intrepid Ibex, is due on October 30th. However, I will not install it. The reason is that Kubuntu developers intentionally disabled the zoom function, and I have three activities on this machine. How come I’m supposed to use them? Also, space is pretty tight so install a build environment just to remove one patch seems overkill. So, I’m moving away from it. Do you know any recent, EeePC and KDE friendly distro?

Gutsy Gibbon Beta

Mon, 01 Oct 2007 20:11:58 +0000

After some thought, I’ve joined the fray and installed the beta version of Kubuntu 7.10 (Gutsy Gibbon) on one of my computers. It hasn’t too recent hardware (AMD Thunderbird 2100+, 512 Mb RAM and a motherboard with a Nforce 2 chipset), and it is my test system for distributions.

It ran Feisty Fawn, so I tried to use the upgrader tool, which crashed when removing unsupported packages. Oh well, it was a beta, so nothing to worry about (the only worry was that it didn’t output anything at all). I then tried dist-upgrading and again the process failed due to file ownership conflicts: I solved that with some fiddling, but again nothing to worry about too much.

Kubuntu on dennogumi.org

Alternatives to Kubuntu for the Eee PC?

Gutsy Gibbon Beta