Ubuntu 9.10 on a Eee 1000HA: Amazing
Issues with Ubuntu mainline support for Netbooks, the Asus Eee models in particular, have spawned various Ubuntu variants such as Eeebuntu and Easy Peasy. Up until recently I was using Eeebuntu 3.01 on my Eee 1000HA, but a hard drive problem fouled that up so I reconsidered my OS options.
With the recent release of Ubuntu 9.10 (Karmic Koala) I decided to try the mainline Netbook Remix distribution. It’s virtues have now won me over:
- Sound works perfectly out of the box (previously had to manually update ALSA), and no issues with speakers still playing with headphones plugged in
- Resume from hibernate is WAY faster than w/ previous Ubuntus
- Ubuntu Netbook Remix launcher interface is much snappier
The only thing that didn’t work out of the box, but didn’t work with Eeebuntu either, is wifi. It’s super flaky using the default ath5k, and despite various attempted fixes, I always have to fall back on using ndiswrapper.
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Ran CrunchEee on my Eee 900HD then Ubuntu Netbook Remix and now standard Crunchbang 9.04 desktop, don’t know if asus changed the wireless adapters between models but mines always worked right after install, I think the UNR interface is great if I wanted a netbook for my mum or dad but for me I wasn’t comfortable Crunchbang uses Openbox with a bit of Gnome and alot of terminal apps thrown in and it suits me much better