Comments on: Ubuntu Eee pre-installed on Toshiba netbooks ?

By: Calvin Robinson

Calvin Robinson — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 00:38:24 +0000

I saw one of these Toshibas being displayed by Canonical at Ubuntu Live: London the other day.

It did have the blue themed Ubuntu Eee running, although at the time I had just assumed this had been installed post-purchase.

There was also an uglier netbook version of Ubuntu running on a Dell netbook.

By: ulenz

ulenz — Sat, 15 Nov 2008 18:17:00 +0000

Today I’ve got my NB 100 running Ubuntu 8.04 EEE, and I am disappointed. I am not able to install Ubuntu 8.04 without using the recovery cd and an external dvd-ROM. Gparted is not able to discover the harddisk. It seems to be locked, so that you can only use the Recocery CD. No games with new distributions possible.

By: neil

neil — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 13:47:13 +0000

Toshiba are partnered with Canonical and are using Ubuntu Netbook Remix (Hardy LTS) on their devices.

P.S. Having a link to the UNR project (https://launchpad.net/unr) on your wiki would be cool :-)

P.P.S I am the main developer of Netbook Remix

By: stef.s

stef.s — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 23:05:04 +0000

Surely if it is shipping with a ‘buntu version, it’s going to be the latest 8.10 release which includes a special netbook version?

Runs on eee900 straight from the install, not custom kernel required.

By: URS

URS — Mon, 27 Oct 2008 15:49:27 +0000

As you all can see, you could use this machine as a mirror, too, even when it is switched on.

By: Phil

Phil — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 14:08:22 +0000

Neither! Not his or his competitors!

It comes with windows XP, like every other consumer netbook (mostly).

Saw it in Akihabrah today, brand new, just got them in mid-day and barely have a display setup for it. Seems to be a bit lackluster of a machine, compared to the other netbooks, and there asking price of 69,000¥ was a bit steep!

They weren’t sure on the ram, as they were told 1gb, but the model they had only had 512mb, so they were confused…

By: Jon Ramvi

Jon Ramvi — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 08:47:37 +0000

Søren Malling, it was taken down. I will make a post to keep you updated :)

By: Burt B.

Burt B. — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 23:49:08 +0000

@ Hawk… Cool !! Thank you for pointing that out. You are correct, the upper right icons are different. Whew!! That’s a relief! I guess I’m just paranoid, because the people behind this project and on this forum are some of the most decent folks that I have ever met on-line. Because I think goodness and decency should be rewarded — I would like to see this particular project not only survive, but thrive!!

– Burt B.

By: Hawk

Hawk — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 15:12:45 +0000

Burt B – incorrect. Look closely at the menu on each side of the Toshiba picture here. It is not his competitor’s (look at the website you posted, very different). Even the blue is different shade and different theme/style.

By: jobforacallboy

jobforacallboy — Wed, 22 Oct 2008 21:22:43 +0000

you should call it “poky” if ion is a trademark or something

By: Matty

Matty — Wed, 22 Oct 2008 16:51:00 +0000

I guess they found out that Cisco’s modular operating system is called ION. Or!?

By: Burt B.

Burt B. — Wed, 22 Oct 2008 14:10:35 +0000

Time is running out.

Because of the blue theme on the Toshiba netbook, I fear that they may have picked-up your competitor:

http://www.eeebuntu.org/

– Burt B.

By: Søren Malling

Søren Malling — Wed, 22 Oct 2008 12:09:50 +0000

What happened to the post regarding name change to “ion”?