Jon:

Great work with Ubuntu Eee…

By the way, I’ve been trying to run it with VMWare on a Vista host, but I can’t get past Busybox. I even tried some tips for changing the bios.bin, but that didn’t work either (http://forum.eeeuser.com/viewtopic.php?id=3394)

It’d be great to know what I’m doing wrong with it. Any tips? Or know where there’s a tutorial?

Comment by twocs — November 3, 2008 @ 9:38 am

Great work, updates does not work in the netherlands, but wen make the choice of the states in synaptic package manager, settings, repositories, and than download from server usa, it workes fine.

Keep on the good work, this is GOLD.

Comment by Merhart — September 8, 2008 @ 9:29 am

Guys, new RC out!

http://www.jonramvi.com/ubuntu-eee-8041-rc2/

Comment by ongofongo — September 4, 2008 @ 4:12 pm

“Netbook remix doesn’t respond after suspend”

The latest ume-launcher packages fixed that for me, maybe you should upgrade in Ubuntu Eee too!

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Cannot switch to root even after installing password using
’sudo passwd root’.
Using right password gets “Authentication failure”.
After inserting SD card and trying to open it following error message appears: Cannot mount volume. mount: must be superuser to use mount. My user is in administrator group.

Comment by Lena — September 3, 2008 @ 8:52 am

Hey Jackson,

Yes, I am aware of the site. My idea here is to strickly form a local group to share a site/blog with ideas of how and what we do with Ubuntu-eee. For the only reasons of a hobbiest.

I am not here to take any credit of Ubuntu-eee or here to expliot it in any shape, size, or code of Jon’s hard work. The only thing that I would like to accomplish is to share my ideas and help spread the word of Ubuntu-eee.com. With my site, i want to explain in what ways i am awarded and what servies it brings me over any other OS such as Windows and Mac.

If you have any questions or comments? Please send me a personal email.

Thank you for reading.

Comment by Anonymous — September 3, 2008 @ 5:24 am

patrickK:

Please shoot me an email at: info@midnitemac.com

Perhaps, we can start a local “UEG”…LoL! Meaning, ‘Ubuntu-Eee Group’ here in the LA area? I must warn you of the following: I am not a programmer myself but am a damn good tester :)

In addition, I have already started a basic home page for Ubuntu-eee here:

http://www.midnitemac.com/Ubuntu_Eee.html

Anyways, let me know what you think?

Thanks in advance,

Midnite Mac
midnitemac.com

Comment by Midnite Mac — September 2, 2008 @ 11:50 pm

Midnite Mac, I’m in the LA area too! Here’s hoping we get as much bugs out of the way.

I’m gonna take a bit of time to look up the volume issue. Last night I unmuted my sound while playing some MP3 and I got it to full blast. Once I turned it down, I was never able to get it that loud again. I think that problem is noted, so maybe someone will come up with a fix.

Comment by patrickK — September 2, 2008 @ 11:21 pm

Thanks for all of your work. The network connectivity works even better than Xandros (requires taking out the battery on my 1000 eee).

Comment by Anonymous — September 2, 2008 @ 8:52 pm

Hey Jon,

QUOTE
Midnite Mac, as we’re a distribution with 60 000 users, splitting it into two is – not optimal. We should make some changes to the Appearance dialog so that you can choose between netbook remix and regular dekstop.
UNQUOTE

I am simply amazed by your replies along with the Strategy that you bring to the community :)

I think that the best thing that I have done this year so far as been finding this wonderful and successful Ubuntu-eee Project ;)

Always, keep up the good work Marie and keep the coffee coming …LoL! (Seriously, brilliant work Jon… need I say nothing less)

Many thanks!

Midnite Mac
midnitemac.com

Comment by Midnite Mac — September 2, 2008 @ 6:21 pm

Jon – great stuff and very helpful. Thanks for the hard work. Here is some input from a fresh install on a eee 901:
o Wireless and wired networks come up fine. A number of Ubuntu updates are offered when you run Synaptic including a eepc package “upgrade”. If you accept the “new” package it breaks most of your fixes.
o Using the function key to turn off the LAN freezes the system. A small image pops up to say the Wireless LAN is off but the wireless is still on. I have not found a way to recover without a hard powerdown.
o I can verify the already reported bugs also occur on the 901.

Thanks – Doug

Comment by Doug — September 2, 2008 @ 2:18 pm

QUOTE
Maybe Ubuntu Eee 8.04.1 shouldn’t come with Netbook Remix?
UNQUOTE

I love NBR too… but unless the resume from hibernate is fixed it is a deal breaker. My advice: If you can fix the resume then include it; if you can’t, then DON’T FORCE IT – folks can always install it themselves later.

This should make a fully working GOLD easier, I would hope…!

Comment by Grant — September 2, 2008 @ 11:27 am

Hello Jon,
I am using the latest version of ume-launcher, 0.5ubuntu12 from ppa.launchpad.net, which has fixed the netbook interface issues after a suspend/resume cycle.

Hope this helps..

Comment by JRocket — September 1, 2008 @ 8:52 pm

Where should we send the coffee to ?

Comment by Mr Mitch — September 1, 2008 @ 7:30 pm

Regarding the netbook remix, I installed it on top of regular Hardy (i.e. not the Ubuntu-eee version) and it does resume from suspend with issue. I did use the kernel from http://array.org/ubuntu/setup901.html so maybe that helped.

Comment by jim — September 1, 2008 @ 5:30 pm

I’ve noticed a new bug in 8.04.1 RC. I like to use ‘root’ sometimes, so the first thing i do when I install any ubuntu version is a “sudo passwd”, in order to give root a password, so I can use it sometimes. The command let me change the password, but it is not effectively changed! if you try to su to root user, it does not recognize the password you set. Not sure if passwd is working for the regular (non-root) user also. Can you please investigate this? I’m using a 701 with 4Gb

Comment by DiabboVerdde — September 1, 2008 @ 4:01 pm

Thanks for making the page I requested. As an Ubuntu eee user it makes me feel very well taken care of.

«Mic problems with 901 & 1000
8.04.1»

And the 900. My internal mic doesn’t work. It’s no biggie, ‘cos the headset mic works just fine, but it is those odd times when you’d like to answer a Skype-call, but haven’t attached the head set yet….

./nalle.

Comment by Nalle Berg — September 1, 2008 @ 8:20 am

I think the version looks great. It would really be a pity if the NBR was not included. Yesterday I suddenly remembered a problem I had the old 8.04. It is about the bluetooth function. When I use a bluetooth dongle with a bluetooth mouse I can´t wake the computer up with the mouse if I wait too long (~45min). Then I have to touch the pad to wake the computer and take out the dongle and reinsert it to get the bluetoothfunction again. I am sorry I have not filed a bug report but it will come.

Comment by alexandersson — September 1, 2008 @ 5:43 am

Jon,

Will you be posting another – LIVE Update – during the course of UBUNTU EEE 8.04.1 RC to GOLD?

I would like to see more daily updates of your progress with weeding out the bugs to gold.

Thanks,
MidniteMac.com

Comment by Midnite Mac — September 1, 2008 @ 4:16 am

Appreciate all your hard work, Jon.
Just a couple of suggestions, though it seems you already have them listed in the “bugs”.
1. I was unable to update or install software from the normal ubuntu “add programs”
2. It sure would be nice if it were easy to turn netbook remix off and on. It’s nice to have doing recreational computing, but since I use my 1000 for work, it was much nicer once I removed remix, especially since I use an external monitor about 1/2 the time.
Again, thanks for the hard work!!

Comment by luke — September 1, 2008 @ 3:05 am

I’m looking forward to the next release. I do a lot of recording and would love to see the mic fix fall into it, but otherwise hopefully it will be an update fix that will come along soon. Thanks for all your good work.

Comment by Topstan — August 31, 2008 @ 9:43 pm

Thanks a lot for all your work: it is great. Waiting for the gold :luv:

Comment by ben75ben — August 31, 2008 @ 4:26 pm

QUOTE
Maybe Ubuntu Eee 8.04.1 shouldn’t come with Netbook Remix?
UNQUOTE

I think this is one of the attractive elements of 8.04.1!
Please keep it in, if possible.

Waiting for the GOLD.
And: thanks for doing an excellent job

Comment by Hein Hoek — August 31, 2008 @ 8:22 am

Sorry, also I would like to thank everyone who has every donated both money or talent to this great community.

And ‘Jon’ for adding the new plugins to his site. Which now allows me to simply add the following RSS:

feed://www.jonramvi.com/feed/

Now, I am free from hitting refresh on the home page screen and allowing it to update automatically :)

BTW, sorry you couldn’t sleep. But it looks as though it seemed to work out in my favor …LoL!

Wonderful job, keep up the great work!

Midnite Mac
midnitemac.com

Comment by Midnite Mac — August 30, 2008 @ 10:44 pm

As a newbie to Linux & Ubuntu, I am constantly amazed by the commitment & enthusiasm shown by the community. The RC is awesome & I’m learning to enjoy the Remix interface. Great work Jon & thank-you.

Comment by Gary — August 30, 2008 @ 10:22 pm

Jon, you’re doing a great job! I’m having a blast on the RC. Thank you.

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