What to expect of Ubuntu Eee 8.04.1

And when will it be released? First things first. Ubuntu Eee probably have over 50 000 active users now, which is way more than expected. Now we hope we can give you back more than expected. What can you expect of Ubuntu Eee 8.04.1:

Half the boot time because of the great custom made kernel by Adam

Better support for Asus Eee 701: Newer (and better) wireless driver, webcam working - doesn't bring the Eee to a full stop and bugs fixed (ex: now shuts completly off)

Better support for Asus Eee 701: Newer (and better) wireless driver, webcam working (doesn't bring the Eee to a full stop) and bugs fixed (shuts completely off and so on)

Support for Asus Eee 900, 901, 1000 and 1000H

Only uses 1.8 GB - that's right, we now support Asus Eee 2G as well

Only uses 1.8 GB.Meaning we now support Asus Eee 2G as well

Changes from the regular Ubuntu 8.04.1 release. Firefox 3, bug fixes and so on

Netbook Remix interface!

What not to expect of Ubuntu Eee 8.04.1

Upgrading from 8.04 to 8.04.1

“What?! That sucks!” Yeah, I know, but no one have taken the time to make debs of the changes implemented into 8.04.1, which means the edits are hard coded into the iso and you won’t be able to upgrade. You will have to do a fresh install.

When will it be released

As soon as Adams new kernel is ready, Ubuntu Eee 8.04.1 goes gold. It is ready within a couple of days.

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August 5th, 2008 | EasyPeasy

58 comments

Hi Jon:
I want say BIG BIG THANKS for your efor in this linux distrubution. I am using it, an it as been a wonderfull tool for my work.
For the moment I will need more time to feedbak in technicalities. I downloaded yesterday Oct 9th 2008
THANKS again.

Comment by Flavio — October 10, 2008 @ 9:09 pm

Hi Jon,

Great distro, marvellous work! I have an eeePC 1000H and am having problems with the touchpad. Is there anyway to disable ‘tap-to-click’? I’m new to Linux and it’s infuriating constantly clicking when I don’t mean to!

Comment by Garry — September 15, 2008 @ 8:11 am

Thomas, I don’t mind at all!

Charles, in short: yes :)

Anonymous, I haven’t seen any tests yet, but I’ll be sure to post them when people start benchmarking

Comment by Jon Ramvi — September 6, 2008 @ 9:27 pm

Is it everything working in the 901 Charles, any issue to be commented with that config ?

What about boot time ?

Thanks

Comment by Anonymous — August 24, 2008 @ 9:28 am

For someone already running Ubuntu EEE 8.04 with adamm’s custom kernel, (and it’s fully tweaked), will the 8.04.1 installation provide any more functionality or compatibility with a model 901?

Comment by Charles — August 24, 2008 @ 1:22 am

[...] to Ubuntu to turn it into Ubuntu Eee. Not many changes were applied in this first release (but the 8.04.1 release is awesome) and it’s sad if we go around fooling people. 27% thougth we had made many changes. [...]

Pingback by Statistics: August 23rd - Page 3 of 3 | Jon Ramvi . com — August 23, 2008 @ 4:10 pm

BTW Jon.. I’ve posted tonight’s release on digg. Hope you don’t mind..

http://digg.com/linux_unix/Ubuntu_eee_8_0_1_to_go_gold_tonight

Feel free to digg, everyone. Help spread the word, about this (hopefully) fabulous release! ;)

Comment by Thomas — August 22, 2008 @ 10:17 pm

Gerrt, yes, Ubuntu Eee will be available in the same languages as Ubuntu – and that’s a whole lot. Heia Norge!

Patrick, Nalle Berg, you can follow the development of Ubuntu Eee live here:
http://www.jonramvi.com/2008/08/ubuntu-eee-8041-release-live-hour-by-hour/

Comment by Jon Ramvi — August 22, 2008 @ 2:41 pm

I think a fonctionnality to crypt the data on the eee would be great, because we can loose this micro PC, and somebody can still it, so it can protect our critical data…

Comment by scott — August 22, 2008 @ 12:52 pm

“So Ubuntu Eee 8.04.1 is released in about 72 hours.”
Comment by Jon Ramvi — August 19, 2008 @ 11:45 am

According to that statement it should come today? Can anyone confirm that? I’d love to use this weekend to install it on my, my daughters (2 of them) and
my friends – we all got 900’s.

Having four installs to do, it is nice that it comes on a Friday! I refer to my earlier post and do not want to rush anything – I’d just like to know.

./nalle.

Comment by Nalle Berg — August 22, 2008 @ 9:22 am

Does anyone know if the RC of Ubuntu EEE 8.04.1 has been released yet or where to download it?

Comment by Patrick — August 21, 2008 @ 11:56 pm

Hi, thanks for the good work;-)
I’ve got a weird question: Will the 8.04.1 be available in norsk/nynorsk? Heia Norge!

Comment by Gerrt — August 21, 2008 @ 7:41 pm

That’s right Edward, however before UNR was installed boot took near 45 scs to GDM.

Now, no-GDM login, around 1.10 to see gnome loaded, plus another 10-15 scs to complete UNR.

Adam tested this new kernel to be in the order of 20-23 scs (using a 900 I guess). Let’s wait and see …

Comment by Javier — August 21, 2008 @ 12:28 am

Javier: correct me if I’m wrong, but that may have something to do with installing Netbook Remix on a 701.

Comment by Edward — August 20, 2008 @ 11:50 pm

Thank u Jon, but could not wait.
Installed stock 8.4.01 + Adam’s new k + Ricey + all tweaks (hpet, no quiet boot, etc) + UNR on my 701 4g. Everything works fine, however boot time (Button pressed to UNR operational) still close to 85 seconds, just fyi.

all the best

Comment by Javier — August 20, 2008 @ 3:31 pm

Eagerly awaiting 8.04.1

My mate has the 900 so I have a victim to test it on… :)

Comment by Gaspard Leon — August 20, 2008 @ 12:18 am

thanks a lot for all the efforts that have gone to build this excellent product; i am running my new eeepc 901 and very happy with it. All the best with the new release.

looking fwd for the new release.. only worry is that i can’t upgrade and have to do fresh install on a fully setup system :(

Also i have noted that some times when you access blue tooth the system hangs up.. just wanted to let you know. thanks again..

Comment by Akshathkumar Shetty — August 19, 2008 @ 6:52 pm

Hmm. Strange. Your feeds is working now. I just wanted to let you know so that you don’t spend time working on it …

Comment by Asle Ommundsen — August 19, 2008 @ 3:10 pm

Asle Ommundsen, thanks for the heads up! Will fix it as soon as 8.04.1 is out of the way.

tom.higgy, as it isn’t ready and as I don’t have an atom; I don’t know yet. We will benchmark it when it’s done :)

Kip Ingram, thanks and thanks for seeding!

Javier, Edward, Michael, I got a lot of work yesterday. The last problem is getting applications into the Netbook Remix favorites menu through terminal. If someone knows how, please share :) When that’s done, I’ll make an iso for myself – see if it’s working. If I’m happy about it, I’ll make a RC. If there’s no complains the first 24 hours, the same iso goes gold! So Ubuntu Eee 8.04.1 is released in about 72 hours. I’m sorry about the late replies, but the time I’ve used by the computer have only been making-Ubuntu Eee-time.

Denis, the 900 is supported. You can be the one to check if the 900D is supported :) Thanks!

Comment by Jon Ramvi — August 19, 2008 @ 11:45 am

Any update on the UBUNTU EEE 8.04.1 release?

Comment by Michael — August 18, 2008 @ 10:07 pm

the excitement is mounting! i’ve had my eee 901 a week now and i’m looking forward to ditching Xandros for 8.04.1. i’m trying to be patient, i really am!

Comment by sim — August 18, 2008 @ 5:32 pm

I’m using ubuntu eee 8.04 on my 700, but I’m planning on buying a 900D, is 8.04.1 gonna work on these?

Comment by Denis — August 18, 2008 @ 2:47 pm

I’d like to add my words of thanks to those below for all your hard work so far. My eeepc 901 should be arriving tomorrow, and I look forward to throwing the new ubuntu-eee 8.04.1 on it as soon as possible. Any updates as to when we may expect it? (a popular question, it seems :) )

Comment by Edward — August 17, 2008 @ 7:59 pm

Thank you both Jon and Adam for the time and work to bring the best of Ubuntu to our little eee’s.

Now, I dont want to put preassure on u Jon but when do u expect to throw 8.04.1 ?

Some of us need to make decisions based on ur timescales …

Kind regards from the sunny Spain

Comment by Javier — August 16, 2008 @ 1:07 pm

Which machine do you have? 8.04 was only designed for the 701 – there are fixes for the 901/1000. 8.04.1 should sort any issues. I hope… =8)

Comment by Peter — August 16, 2008 @ 11:14 am

Dissapointed.

I was hoping that an Ubuntu distro that was specific to the eee would actually have wireless working “out of the box”

Imagine my frustration when the OS could not only not find the wireless card, but it can’t find the ethernet card either.

An eee specific distro should have networking running ‘out of the box’

Back to square one

Comment by anon — August 16, 2008 @ 3:22 am

Thanks for working so hard to improve Ubuntu for the EEE PC. Looking forward to 8.04.1 since I can’t install 8.04 yet on my 2GB surf. Can’t wait! :)

Comment by Patrick Carroll — August 16, 2008 @ 1:10 am

Great work going on here jon and adam. Eagerly waiting for the new version.

Comment by soapy — August 15, 2008 @ 10:51 pm

Wow; I’m positively hanging on the edge of my seat over this. I just bought a 1000. I did ok with Xandros until I tried to make a Sprint PCS broadband card work. Installed Ubuntu Eee and it worked right away.

But there are the other issue that you all know about. 8.04 is working well enough for me to cobble along with, but I really look forward to right and proper support for this amazing little computer.

Thanks for all the hard work! I expect that torrent ratio you mentioned will flip upside down as soon as you release. I’ll seed it and leave it seeded.

Comment by Kip Ingram — August 15, 2008 @ 9:31 pm

Awsum news on the 901 fixes!

Looks like there’s a shortage of stock which means I’ve another week of waiting. It’ll make it all the better!

How’s the boot time on the atom?

Comment by tom.higgy — August 15, 2008 @ 12:24 pm

Thank you! I will wait! :-)

(PS! Your RSS and Atom feeds don’t work for me (i am using the Opera browsers built in feed reader). Also it gives errors displayed in the browser: «XML parsing failed: syntax error (Line: 0, Character: 0) – Error:unexpected end-of-file – Specification:http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-xml/»)

Comment by Asle Ommundsen — August 15, 2008 @ 12:03 pm

Wait ;)

Comment by Jon Ramvi — August 15, 2008 @ 11:48 am

Thank you for all the hard work on this!

Should i install 8.04 or wait for 8.04.1? I can’t decide! :o)

Comment by Asle Ommundsen — August 15, 2008 @ 11:24 am

Petter, I could make an RC with known bugs, but as we’re all doing this on our free time, it’s not something I prioritize as it’s kind of a waste of time. I also like Nalle Berg’s arguments ;)

Tommer, you don’t Have to install Ubuntu Eee on a memory card. You can install it on the internal drive and have the SD slot free :)

As Adam again has amazed us not only with a great kernel but also a great development speed, Ubuntu Eee 8.04.1 is ready to be thrown together. Give me a couple of days and it’s out :)

Comment by Jon Ramvi — August 13, 2008 @ 2:40 pm

I remember Mozilla Firefox pre 1.0. They either didn’t release to early. Wine used 15 years to reach 1.0.

Point being that that is actually one of the benefits with open source. They do not release till they’re good and ready and then they can stand for the product.

So we really do not need a RC with known bugs. I agree 100% (if anyone should care) with the policy of waiting with the release till it’s ready and working.

./nalle.

Comment by Nalle Berg — August 13, 2008 @ 7:32 am

Hey Adam great job!!! I am really looking forward to the new Ubuntu eee.

Greetz,

Marcel
The Netherlands

Comment by Marcel — August 13, 2008 @ 5:14 am

The headphone jack problem is finally fixed! Along with the internal microphone, volume control, wifi, everything* on the 901/1000/1000h seems to work!.

2.6.24-21-eeepc has gone gold!

Comment by Adam — August 13, 2008 @ 2:55 am

Man, I really wants me some eee! Only have the 2GB and don’t want to have to jump through hoops or waste my SD card slot just to have some sweet Ubuntu action.

Comment by Tommer — August 13, 2008 @ 2:05 am

Couldn’t you make an RC-release with known bugs?

Comment by Petter — August 12, 2008 @ 6:03 pm

hi, if you need someone to betatest your future distribution, I can help. Being myself a programmer I know it is hard to see all the bugs by yourself.

Comment by adrien — August 12, 2008 @ 12:50 pm

Mark and Micheal, Adam, who’s working on the kernel, has run into some problems with the headphones jack. We won’t ship something that doesn’t work :)

Comment by Jon Ramvi — August 12, 2008 @ 12:10 pm

Few days later still waiting waiting and waiting

Comment by Micheal — August 11, 2008 @ 5:32 pm

So when can we expect 8.04.1 I gave up waiting and installed eeebuntu 1.0 with compiz enabled by default and its doing a decent job. Want to give 8.04.1 a try, will it be released in the next few days?

Comment by Mark — August 10, 2008 @ 9:26 pm

having installed the first ubuntu 8.04 and being a linux newbee, i have to say your guys have all been doing a great job. There are bugs on the eee but the equivalent of a needle in a haystack compared to my windows laptop. cant wait for the upgrade

Comment by mits — August 10, 2008 @ 6:16 pm

this is looking very promising indeed. running eeexubuntu on my 701 at the moment, but will give this a try as soon as 8.04.1 arrives.

Comment by thomas — August 9, 2008 @ 7:29 pm

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Pingback by Call for help: Ubuntu Eee 8.04.1 Feature Page | Jon Ramvi . com — August 7, 2008 @ 11:59 am

Tomas, yes, netbook remix will be default. We will however make it easy to remove it and use the regular desktop

Comment by Jon Ramvi — August 7, 2008 @ 8:10 am

Hey guys,

I am really looking forward to the new ubuntu eee, already installed ubuntu on my desktop, and waiting for a stable ubuntu eee for my asus eee pc 701 without using the scripts that screw up my eee pc:-) Thanks for the good work!!!

Comment by Marcel — August 7, 2008 @ 4:30 am

Will the Netbook Remix interface be the default and only interface (hope not!)?
I prefere the standard interface …

Comment by Tomas — August 7, 2008 @ 3:17 am

justin shimp, thanks! Looking forward to the donation ;)

Comment by Jon Ramvi — August 6, 2008 @ 10:19 pm

Thanks so much! i cant wait to have this installed on my 900! great work guys! when i get some extra cash ill drop some off in the donation bin…you guys deserve it!

Comment by justin shimp — August 6, 2008 @ 9:57 pm

Keith Childs, the process is easy. You move any files you don’t want to loose to an usb stick. You make the ubuntu eee usb stick and just click next thought the whole installation process. This will format the drive and install ubuntu eee 8.04.1.

Comment by Jon Ramvi — August 6, 2008 @ 11:33 am

hi
good job

but it’s too bad if we have to do a fresh install on our perfect set up ;-)

Comment by green spiral — August 6, 2008 @ 8:08 am

I was very excited to find this after buying an eee 900, I’m really looking forward to 8.04.1!

Comment by Daniel — August 6, 2008 @ 7:02 am

Great work and looking forward to it.With 8.04 already installed on a EeePC 900 will there be a wiki page explaining the steps to uninstall this before installing 8.04.1? I’m assuming this is what has to happen- or if you have enough space can you do the uninstall later?

Comment by Keith Childs — August 6, 2008 @ 7:02 am

Great work, Jon, I am very excited with this new release. I will expect also the SD card ^^ and I think that it will be my main EEE OS, with a full operating system in a full working small computer, the EEE 701.

Comment by Xenon — August 6, 2008 @ 2:30 am

robin brandt, I could be wrong, but I’m pretty sure it comes preinstalled with tomboy :)

Comment by Jon Ramvi — August 6, 2008 @ 12:47 am

Hello, will I be able to install Tomboy? Please emial me if you have that second to spare? Thanks for your great work?

Comment by robin brandt — August 5, 2008 @ 9:23 pm

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