Tuesday, April 07, 2009

Ubuntu 9.04 UNR beta on Asus Eee PC impressions

Hardware specifications
* Asus Eee PC 1000h with a 64Gb MLC SSD from SuperTalent

Advantages (+)
* Straight-forward installation, even easier than 8.10
* ext4
* Faster startup times
* Recognized all hardware i.e. webcam, bluetooth - no need for the linux-eeepc kernel from array.org.
* Slicker GUI - simple yet intuitive

Disadvantages (-)
* Not very nice greek language support for the Ubuntu Netbook Desktop mode
* Firefox does not seem to save settings
* Will be out officially in 16 days from today

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