Due to hardware issues on my netbook I ended up using my old machine and I installed Ubuntu 9.10 aka Karmic Koala. My old machine is a Lenovo C3000 N100 so as you can see, it’s beginning to age. But no Karmic Koala didn’t give me headaches the way I had other issues in the past.
What’s the initial impression that I got from using Karmic Koala?

It’s shiny! Seriously. I found the new GNOME quite shiny. It’s a whole lot more polished compared to the older GNOME releases. It really looks clean and whoever passed …read more

It’s too late when I realized that I didn’t have my netbook’s charger and so I can’t really upgrade my netbook this weekend. It’s not good. Argh. And just when I had plenty of time to upgrade and fix something if ever something gets broken.
So yeah, everybody seems to have Ubuntu 9.10 or Karmic Koala already. Well, except for me. Tsk. Next time I will check my things before leaving a building, just to be sure this doesn’t happen again.
Back to business.
And everyone but me has Karmic Koala. By this time it’s more …read more

Ubuntu Karmic Koala’s about to be released and I was wondering if I should upgrade or stick with Jaunty Jackalope. Phoronix released an article about Ubuntu 9.10 performance on netbooks. It looks like that there is a perceived improvement with the disk-intensive tasks because of the switch to the EXT4 filesystem. Those who are using SSDs on their netbooks might especially want to take advantage of that. For the upcoming release I am actually waiting for the Ubuntu 9.10 Moblin Remix. I am using the Ubuntu UMPC one right now but the Moblin user interface …read more

Yes, there is another one more Ubuntu flavor to try out for you guys. If you like Ubuntu but you want a default set-up which are lightweight in terms of the overall performance. I really simple and uncomplicated set-ups. This kind of Ubuntu is using LXDE as a desktop environment.
It’s  another derivative that’s specifically for those who would like to take advantage of LXDE. As Linux Mag points out: Lubuntu uses the least amount of memory after a fresh boot of the live CDs. And with everyday applications loaded, it still seems to be the most …read more

The first time I installed Chromium, it was terribly slow. Ugh. I couldn’t wait for it to load a website. It was just too painfully slow to wait for it. Just now I read a write-up about it having Flash support in Ubuntu. Hrmm. If people are talking about that now, then it must be better, right?
So… apparently there’s a better way to install Chromium on Ubuntu, the right way. Don’t worry. Even if there are command line instructions, they are straightforward. You basically need to add the Chromium PPA …read more

Because your netbook doesn’t need to feel sucky! And it could work better for you too!
Sounds like an infomercial, doesn’t it? ;  )  But thinking about what defaults you might possibly have, there’s gotta be something better.  And I might be biased but there really are other things better on netbooks compared to Windows.  Whether you believe it or not, that’s what I personally think.  Windows looks too cluttered for me even though it’s not as sluggish as I thought it would be.
Anyway, no need to freak out that your netbook isn’t quite as fantastic as you thought it should …read more

Looking for something smaller than a netbook but will give you more time to check your mail, read an ebook or two and watch videos? Then it looks like Sharp might have the answers to your prayers with their upcoming PC-Z1 Mobile Internet Tool.

Image Credit: Sharp World
Features:

Quick launching of applications
Long battery time – but this could be affected by your usage. If you watch videos or listen to music a lot, this is going to be lessened.
Touch screen LCD and keyboard. Your input is not limited to the keyboard. I suppose that a …read more

Who says introducing a particular distro has to be boring? There are ways to make things interesting. OS-tans, for one, seemed to work as a way for people to identify various operating systems, mainly the Windows variants but there are also Linux-OS-tans or Distro-tans too. Characteristics of various distros are made evident in the personification that they have made.
Enter Ubunchu – a manga specifically made to introduce Ubuntu to new
users. It’s set in a high school where you have a club with three members: a Linux user, a Windows user and a Mac user. Interestingly …read more

Trying out Moblin got me interested because I found the user interface interesting enough and it seemed to make sense for a netbook user such as myself. The screen real estate is maximized with such a user interface instead of the regular GNOME or KDE with panels and stuff. I found the panel of Moblin nifty because it’s automatically hidden when it’s not needed.
So, yeah, I think it would be cool if Moblin and Ubuntu joined forces and have an Ubuntu Moblin Remix. Turns out that there will be one such experiment which we will …read more

Possible Linux distros to use Moblin are: Ubuntu, Xandros and Red Flag. Novell also announced a Moblin version of SUSE for Acer Aspire One and MSI Wind. I already blogged about Moblin so you have a better idea of what it looks like, right?
andros is said to be the best distro for Windows users while Ubuntu and SUSE have a lot of users, especially Ubuntu because of how user friendly it is. So I get the feeling that combining Moblin with these distros could be beneficial. The user interface of Moblin seems to maximize the screen …read more