Opensuse 11 on the U100
Posted by Bob on Jul 22, 2008
The last few days I tried to install Opensuse 11 on my U100, but wasn’t very succesful.
First, I tried the Live CD and that seemed to go very well. After a relatively slow boot I saw the wondeful new KDE4 desktop. Unfortunately I was not able to connect my wireless with my home network. Also, the instaal from the Live CD wasn’t working. No errors, no messages, it just did not work.
Then, I started the installer from the Install DVD and had a bit more success installing the software. The Gnome dekstop did not work al all. The gdm would not start, although the installation was in the native 1280×786 screen resolution.
So, I tried to install the KDE desktop and later the XFCE desktop and that did work. Unfortunately, again, I wasn’t able to connect my onoard wireless device. MAybe I missed a few steps during the confuguration, but I’m not that die hard Lunix guy to have it fixed from the command line.
So, as I made a image of my Xubuntu 8 installation, I’ll go back to Xubunutu very soon (i hope).
Linux on the Libretto 50/70
Posted by Bob on May 13, 2008
In my neverending search for usefull links and other info about installing a Linux distro or other OS on your Libretto I found these 2 interesting links:
FreeBSD 4.10 & Xfree86 4.3.0 on Toshiba Libretto
Linux on the Toshiba Libretto 70
Both websites are very usefull for People like me: interested in installing exotic operating systems om exoctic hardware, but do not have the knowlegde to figure it out all by yourself.
On both pages you’ll find all the information you need about installing Red Hat Linux and FreeBSD on your own LIbretto 40 or 70.
Linux on Libretto 110CT
Posted by Joseph on Apr 16, 2008
This is just a few notes to show you how I trialed Linux on my Libretto 110CT. I used the following distros:
- Zipslack (a cut down version of Slackware without X-Windows. It is called Zipslack because it is designed to be booted off a Zip disk)
- Damn Small Linux
Linux on the U100 (1)
Posted by Bob on Apr 14, 2008
Last weekend I decided to remove my Windows Vista Home Premium installation and try to install linux on my Libretto U100. Reason for this drastic move is the poor performance of Vista, despite the 1 GB memory. Maybe in the future I’ll try Vista again and tune it a biot, but now I want Linux!
So Linux it will be, but what distro will meet my demands? All those different distributions of Linux does not make life a lot easier. But from my little linux experience in the past I choose Xubuntu 7.10 on my Libretto.
Why? Because XFCE is very light compared to Gnome or KDE, and Ubuntu is easy to install and has good support on multimedia, wireless networking and more.