Hi!

long time no see hehehe.

two more weeks till my programming languages course its finished.then i can start making something productive.

I was wondering two things.

do you still have your gutsy iso for download? it was fist like lighting.

And the other more relevant to the topic.

Is there any second release too your Hardy iso? i put a post on the hardy topic. about some ideas i had. about removing everint unnesesary and have a few but powerful programs instead. like mplayer only or vlc. remove totem and so on.

and maybe like you mentioned before. that have some post builds of the harware if you update. and to have the next hardy release up to date when you release it.

I hope that my ideas are not offensive in any way.

Jubej.

from the little country of sweden

Hi,

Your ideas were gladly received.

Totem has been ripped out and amarok put in for audio (with kio for ipod/creative/other). +40mb ish for required kde libraries

Mplayer has been left as I prefer mplayer to totem in mozilla.

A lot of other smaller things have been removed.

Gimp - in (I edit photos on the fly from the cam)
Dia - out (though I use it on my laptop the eee is too small and fiddly)
opensync - left in
conduit - left in (I use it to sync some common files between 2 laptops and eee)
Scrollkeeper - out
Tracker - out
Games - out
openoffice - left (though open to offers)
ekiga - out
skype - in
amsn - in (though pidgin can msn there's no webcam)
awn - in

Can't remember any more off hand.

As for speed, click the frequency app and set to performance. You're now running at the full 900 mhz (the other ran at 600(ish) without overclocking and 900 with).

You could remove cpufreq, sysfs and install powernowd though you will get an error about processor scaling it will run at 600(ish).

Yes I still have the other build. Though need somewhere to put it.

It's been a busy weekend/week so not had much time to get things finalised for a release, though hoping it will be before the weekend.

Working on a very trim moblin based version for a viability test. It's very slim and quick and though it looks simple it's not actually that bad... there's always the cli if I get bored plus it fits just over 1gb with wireless/webcam/acpi/all codec/flash support.

WOW!!!!!!

that sound really good. i like you thinking about mobility and speed.

and bout the choises of apps, i have to say, its great.

i think this will be great that it fits in 1 giga, then 2gb eee users will be able to enjoy your distro too.

Heya bezdomny
I'm a friend of jubei IRL and also got your distro on my eeepc Was quite dissapointed at the speed but I'm sure (and hope?!) that you'll be able to work it out. Though I'm not as funky as Jubei in programming skills, I'll be happy to help with beta-testing and giving feedback.

I got some suggestions for packages that should be removed (some of them you've mentioned already):
gnome-cards-data gnome-accessibility-themes example-content f-spot rhythmbox xsane-common gnome-pilot

Also brasero and audiojuicer should be out (there's no cd drive anyway).


Packages that should be in:
nautilus-open-terminal preload liferea amarok kdebase-kio-plugins compizconfig-settings-manager unrar libtunepimp5-mp3

Also blueman seems like a very worthy replacement for the standard bluetooth manager.

For speed issues regarding processor scaling see:

http://www.thinkwiki.org/wiki/How_to_ma ... cy_Scaling

You could try setting the min/max frequency to the highest value:

# sudo sh -c "echo 900000 > /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/cpufreq/cpuinfo_max_freq"
# sudo sh -c "echo 700000 > /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/cpufreq/cpuinfo_min_freq"

The will give you a scaling on demand range from 700 mhz - 900 mhz. Set the minimum to something you are comfortable with but remember, the higher the min value the more juice will be required to power it and you shorten your battery time. (you may want to put something under the thing before it starts to melt your pants it'll go to mid/high 50s C - possibly more)

I believe that it's still only speed limited to 635, despite saying 900, read it on part of the eeeuser.com wiki... which is a shame!

oops, double post, the forum gave me an error so i re-hit submit

yep, read that too but I think I'll patch it for overclocking to get the full 900 pony power out of it.

First off, great distro...other than having some issue with the mic the install has gone spot on.

Now of course each of us has apps they must have, in fact probably did have about 4 mins after the first good bootup. For me these are

VLC - hands down the best video app out there, also great for audio. It is truly the swiss army knife of players/streamers/repeaters.

Amrok - it does music, podcasts, stream lists...it has zeroconf hook, it does album art, it has plug ins....yes I know rhythm box has lots of this but for me amrok has been a long time fave,

Xchat - while pidgin is nice and all ...when you have spent nearly 15 years on irc you get a bit picky about how things work Xchat has all the good stuff and it does not feel (please don't take this wrong) like a toy. Yes I love pidgin cause it has support for ALL the other IMs, heck it can even do bonjour (apple's marketing spin for zeroconf).


FBreader and Comix - the eee just cries out to have books and comics read on them. These two were put on the old xandros set up about 3 hours after I bought the darn thing cause this was one of the reasons I bought the eee.

What I Would take out

MSN - pidgin does all that cept the cam, but folks I vid chat usually would not touch MS product...friends don't let friends use Balmerware...

Compviz - yes its all the rage, and yes it is hella cool....but when we are shoe horing into 4gb of mem (and remember we need SOMETHING for a ~ that is not mounted on an extern SD) it is something that can go.

OpenOffice - I am a big huge openoffice geek...but as with compviz the space she is sparse. Google Apps takes up...zero mb. If you need something onboard then Abi. yes I will most likely keep OO on my eee but for many this may be room better spent on other things.

Movieplayer/Totem - The default player in ubuntu blowerz. VLC wipes them up twice before breakfast.

Things I know not everyone wants but I just have to have....

Kismet , Wireshark, Etherape - I do tons of network work and these three apps are called on early and often.

Cgoban - I love to play go.

Those are the biggies, and not so biggies.

2 cents deposited

-tom

Yep. It's noice . I tried the default xandros (sick of messing with the debian repos), clean hardy (hassle to make everything work), xubuntu (xfce bites) and so on over a few weeks and have settled on eeebuntu. It worked pretty much straight up without too much tweaking. I broke the wireless then fixed it again no worries.

One annoying bug that is probably easily fixed: in evolution with the eeebuntu theme enabled, the calendar app has a ridiculously large icon displaying a fixed "12 september". This also locks the sidebar to a size bigger than the screen... alt+drag not so much. It was fixed by applying another theme (clearlooks is pretty), and with the switcher buttons disabled the sidebar now fits.

I have: OOo, banshee, VLC, evince (seriously, acrobat?). Multisync and QuickSynergy make life easier. AWN out, compiz and advanced desktop manager definitely in.

Thanks again. That makes 4 cents in the pot.

I really like this iso, but I think some things are just not needed. Acrobat is far too bulky and slow, and aMSN isn't really neccesary, Pidgin does pretty much everything better. I think the screen is far to small for Gimp to be of any use, but mtPaint makes alot more sense. Perhaps Gnumeric and Abiword would have been better options for office programs, they're so much slimmer.

One thing I would add, is that in the GRUB menu list, after the line #defoptions=quiet splash, you need to append 'clocksource=hpet', obviously without the quotation marks, and this sped up my boot time by about 40 seconds. Also, USB_Persist needs to be enabled in the kernel, I mounted /home on my SD to save space, but whenever I suspend it unmounts.

And VLC is definatly in for me, no question that it saves tons of space, you don't need hundreds of codecs. Also, maybe until firefox 3 is no longer beta, we could put in firefox 2. Just for the fact that all my add-ons would work, as well as the minature firefox themes that are really useful for the eee.

Any ideas on when this might be ready?

Putting it together this weekend. Just testing some modifications I made to the install scripts that will ask if you are running on the 701 or the 900 so it will apply the correct modifications as the sound gets broken on the 900 using the 701 scripts. (only received my 900 two days ago for testing).


So, it will be this coming week.

Hey, that's great news Bezdomny.

Thanks for all your hard work. This is turning out to be a really nice distro for the Eee.

We'll keep giving your feedback as you release ISO's.

I just put some of the Ubuntu Netbook Remix packages on my eee. Maybe the "human netbook" theme, maximus daemon and window-picker-applet could be included in the next eeebuntu distro? They are pretty ideal. I prefer it to AWN anyway.

https://launchpad.net/netbook-remix