[ Closed ] CrunchEee 8.10.01 Release Candidate 1 (Page 1 of 5)

Finally an excuse to buy a eeepc.
I've been eyeballing one for a while.

Anyway I like the idea, a specialized distro for netbooks.
Do you need to have some kind of asus app to get the online "Exclusive 60GB Eee Storage" working in #!?

This is going to make it so easy for the legends of eee owners to make the switch to #!.

Question: To get PCMan File Manager "Hal enabled", did you build from source or grab a .deb for one of the repos? #! is already on my eee 1000 ebony 40g SSD and I'd like to try PCMan out.

Thought about getting one, but there is so many to choose from, so I got a robot instead, lol!

I assume flash based would be less heat / noisy and what most people are getting?

Can the flash storage be replaced?

Also, where is the best place to purchase a Eee 1000? Amazon?

Thanks!

Hi all - I have just recently started using cbang on my eee900 and find it a superb distro ( can only use the lite version tho as im not installing any 666 distro (just to be on the safe side!))

Anyway I am very joyed to see an eee version being put together - I tested the rc and found a couple of things.

On my eee (900) eee-control needs to be installed from the ubuntu repository and then activated with the command eee-control-tray , this gives the ability to easily turn on / off completely wifi, camera, plus cpu scaling.

the regular eee kernel should be installed also as this supports more hardware that you may plug into the usb slots .

and lastly when changing panel preferences the default file manager is still listed as thunar and not pcmanfm.

great project - cant wait for the finished version

ps - is it possible to maybe have the striped wallpaper as default for this version?

I also have been waiting for a eee-specific build of #!.  I'm downloading the ISO now and will install later today.

Right then,

Downloaded and installed onto a 512Mb MB stick, installed and working without any issue at all on my 4Gb 701.

My only comment is, this is a netbook installation (and some of us have small disks) I wonder if the initial package should be really lightweight? Personally I wonder if an rss reader, ftp client, torrent client, irc client, and podcast client should be included?

That said, great work Phil, thanks.

Thanks omns, I'll check it out and run it on my laptop (as it's a bit of a sloth). I actually meant light in package terms rather than performance.

yello - I havent got the all function keys working either but brightness and sound work - use the eee-control applet to fill in the missing functions

I installed on my 901 with a fresh format of my 4GB partition but left the 16GB partition as /home and no formatting.  The installation went just fine and it kept my old config files as I'd hoped, however this is both a blessing and a curse.  A blessing in that my conky config remained but my menus and super-key shortcuts do nothing.

I'm assuming all it requires is a quick edit of the xml files however for the hotkeys I'm not sure which file to edit and for the menu I'm not sure what the new programs are.

I'm guessing it would be easiest to back up what I have now and start from the default files again but I don't exactly know where to get them.

.:Help?:.

Thanks

Excellent!  Thank you very much!

I've already got the Lite RC installed, is there any point in installing this? Pretty new to Linux so updating distros isn'r something I've done. I've installed Ubuntu-Eee replacing Xandros and installed #! replacing Ubuntu, but no particular reason to install CrunchEee is there?
The only thing I might want out of this is "Modified default theme with smaller fonts." although I've changed this myself. But is this changed theme available through the #! repository? If not... please

Also, as suggested, some included packages, such as feed reader and podcast catcher may not be necessary. I realize that my usage pattern doesn't match everybody else's, but it would make more sense to only include absolute necessities. I'd suggest something like this:
Terminator terminal.
Firefox web browser. (although I'm actually very happy with Kazehakase so far )
PCMan File Manager with HAL automounting enabled.
Leafpad text editor.
VLC media player.
Pidgin instant messenger (can do IRC, so xchat not necessary, IMO).
Various tools and utilities, such File Roller, Evince PDF viewer, etc.

Stuff like Skype, gPodder, etc can easily be installed of course.

Even better would be a checkbox list of packages to install. But more work on your part though...

Eee 901 + #! =