Hi,

Like a lot of other people I am wondering what the long term future for eeebuntu 3 is.

I am not one of those people who likes to spend a lot of time re-installing, given that EB 4 will be a new distro, what is going to happen with updates to EB 3?

EB 3 remains on old version of Thunderbird and Open Office, If I have to start from scratch with EB 4 will it be 2 years before another version comes along and the developers abandon the current distro?

Whilst it has been an excellent distro, its short life with regard to support puts me off going for a smaller distro, and going back to the bigger distros with longer term support.

Are there any plans to maintain EB 3, or is now obsolete?

Please can we have confirmation either way. It would then be possible to start looking at booting other distros off USB sticks, and looking for other long term options.

Looks like there is no long term future for EB 3.

Time to move on and install another distro where support and updates are available.

For sure it was among the best if not the best distro for the eee PC, but I need to be somewhere now other than with Thunderbird 2, Firefox 2 and a whole host of other programs now a year or 18 months out of date.

So long and thanks for all the fish.

Trouble is most of the new ones are being troublesome for the original e3's such as my venerable 701. I just cant get anything to load and run on it without either running out of space or having other problems along the way and I have tried a stack of them. EB3 was the first and last to really work for me and really work well and I had such high hopes for AuroraOS that appear to be simply dreams. The Forums also seem to have fallen by the wayside too.
The only recent traffic has been scummy spammers <deep sigh>

Fully agree with the other posts in here.

I don't have the time to start all over again with my 901, especially remembering how much problems I had to have evrythng working.

And migrating to EB4 .... probably to resource-hungry for the 901

On the other hand, there is the repository-issue, no longer working so it ain't possible to keep EB3 uptodate. Even no replies on those posts.

Really a dead-end street, and I agree really a pitty because EB3 was a marvel, which makes me even more pissed-off

Even at least someone could solve the repository-issue so that the upgrade functions aagain !!!

Not sure about eb4 being resource hungry. I had it running on my 701 for a couple months till it simply stopped. Then I tried to go back to eb3 and it wouldn't install either. Over the last few months I have tried a number of different distros trying to find something that works and works nicely within the constraints of power, storage, screen size etc. So far nothing that I can recommend worth the effort.