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date: 2008/01/24 17:47
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tags: eee, sysadmin, wicd-qt
title: Yes, Xandros was horrible. But this ubuntu thing is working out nicely!
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updated: 2008/01/24 17:47
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As I said before, the bastardized Xandros [1]_ sucked. In fact, I managed to destroy it. So I decided to switch to another distro. **Any** distro.

Enter eeeXubuntu_, a eee-tuned Xubuntu [2]_.

Since I prefer KDE to XFCE, I started hacking at it, and produced, IMVHO, a much nicer thing.

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As you can see, it takes slightly less space than eeeXubuntu's default, and a whooping 1GB less than the default distro.

How did I do it? First, by deciding what I wanted.

* No OpenOffice. Koffice is enough to read docs, then there is Google docs, and I produce my texts using docutils_

* No printing. I have not used a printer in 5 years. What are the odds I will use one from the eee?

* wicd for network configuration. It works for wireless/wired/encrypted and has no problem whatsoever reconnecting after suspend.

* yakuake for terminal. It uses the least screen-space possible: none if you are not using it.

* Firefox + Flash (I would use Konqueror, if flash9 had not broken it)

* Kmail + Akregator for mail and RSS

It works great, boots in 35 seconds (and I have not tuned that, yet).

Here's the `list of installed packages`_ and here's the `list of repos`_ I am using

Maybe someone more enterprising will make a real distro out of it.

.. _list of installed packages: http://files.openomy.com/public/ralsina/pkglist

.. _list of repos: http://files.openomy.com/public/ralsina/sources.list

.. _docutils: http://doutils.sf.net

.. _eeexubuntu: http://wiki.eeeuser.com/ubuntu:eeexubuntu:home


.. [1] Which is itself a bastardized Debian etch.

.. [2] Which is a XFCE-tuned ubuntu