Installing Ubuntu 11.10 on the Eee PC 901

Published in October 15th, 2011

I haven’t had time yet to rebuild my main system with Ubuntu 11.10, so I did a fresh install on my netbook to try it out. My Eee PC 901 originally shipped with Linux, but it was very Ubuntu unfriendly until 9.04. Since then, all the hardware has been well supported by Ubuntu. As usual, [...]

Reduce Power Usage with PowerTOP

Published in September 9th, 2008

Posted by Tom in reviews, software

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PowerTOP is a Linux tool created by Intel to identify software which causes increased power consumption even while your system is not working. By running PowerTOP and removing software which wakes your computer’s CPU from it’s idle state, you can increase the battery life of your laptop. Install PowerTOP from the package powertop (click the [...]

A Look at Free Flash in Ubuntu 8.04

Published in May 2nd, 2008

Posted by Tom in reviews

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Around the time of the release of Ubuntu 7.10, I tried out the Gnash Flash player included in that release. Because Adobe’s Flash player can not be redistributed in the default Ubuntu installation, a choice of players are offered when you visit a page in Firefox with Flash content. There are three options in Ubuntu [...]

What’s Been Bugging you in Ubuntu 8.04?

Published in April 2nd, 2008

Posted by Tom in reviews

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Since I last wrote about Ubuntu 8.04 after installing the beta, it has been generally stable but definitely beta quality. Here’s the bugs that have been bothering me, fixed and unfixed: The good news, what’s been fixed: When I first installed the beta, Firefox 3′s Java plugin didn’t work. I use Nautilus as a SSH [...]

Adobe AIR for Linux Released

Published in April 1st, 2008

Posted by Tom in reviews

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Adobe AIR (Adobe Integrated Runtime) is a runtime for building Internet-connected desktop applications with offine storage. It’s been available for Mac and Windows for a while, and now an alpha (non-feature complete) Linux version has been released. I tested it out in Ubuntu 8.04. AIR requires a fairly recent Linux distribution, GNOME or KDE, and [...]

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