Jeni's Musings

How are you finding the OS?

Once I added some general Debian repositories, I could get all the “real” software I use on a daily basis in Ubuntu (build-essential, autotools, eclipse+jdk, vpnc, thunderbird, cryptsetup). I did need to recompile the kernel (see my last blog entry at http://appliedlife.blogspot.com) to get high memory (for installing 2GB RAM) and support encrypted disk in the kernel, but I haven’t yet considered moving to “full” KDE even, and switching the whole thing to Ubuntu seems like a waste of time even though I am a big fan of the Ubuntu ‘look and feel’.

Only thing I haven’t got working is connecting to an Apple Airport WEP WLAN - but I haven’t got that working on any of my Linux machines (only works with Macs it seems)

And what about the low screen resolution?

It’s not something I like generally, but there is VGA output, and it’ll drive a higher resolution on an external monitor. And really, this is a machine I hope to travel with (weighs only 2lbs) not use all the time every day…

I keep wanting to use the machine here at home, even though it is less comfortable than my usual setup - this machine is actually remarkable, and inspires feelings beyond those usually associated with cheap black plastic laptops ;)