It’s a simple matter of connecting an ethernet cable, installing a couple of development tools and the kernel headers, compiling and building an RPM and installing it. So far everything works out of the box except WiFi, and that is because of the Linux-hating Broadcom BCM4312 adapter I have. It’s an easy fix of course, I just haven’t bothered yet. ![]() I don’t actually have a boot menu present it boots directly into MeeGo. One thing: I thought I told the installer to add the Windows partition to a boot menu, but I must have either not clicked something, or else found a bug in the installer. So far I’m not missing any functionality, and I certainly don’t miss being bugged by MSE to run a virus scan. I don’t right now, though I may set it up if I feel the need to go back into Windows. It’s very nimble and integrates well with the OS, especially once you’ve installed the latest updates.ĭo you dual boot and if so how hard was it to set up? Unless you are opposed to using it, you should definitely get the version that ships with the Chromium web browser installed. If you use Gmail and Google Calendar, you just have to put in your username and password and it syncs all of your email, contacts and calendar entries to a stripped down version of Evolution.ĮDIT: One more thing. The OS has integrated support for Facebook, SmugMug and several third party Sync services including Google Sync. I think AbiWord and Gnumeric are a great fit for a netbook I used them extensively under Lubuntu as LibreOffice is just a tad bloated for the little laptop. There isn’t a whole lot of software in the default repos but all the basic PIM stuff is there, and I was surprised to see that there isn’t even a stripped down office suite like Gnome Office. It works but is slow compared to the command prompt. There is also a GUI front end that is based on Gnome-PackageKit. While I haven’t messed around with other repositories, it uses an RPM compatible package manager that is nearly as easy to use as apt-get or Pacman on the command line. ![]() ![]() Since I’ve installed MeeGo I haven’t missed Windows (more on that later). I may as well just boot into Windows if those two are all I have on the device. ![]() In contrast, QuickWeb is a misnomer, that pile of garbage takes about 10 seconds to see the GUI but another 15-20 seconds to be operable. I absolutely detest QuickWeb and it’s the first thing I delete when I reinstall WinXP from the original disc set.Ībout on par with Windows, just over 30 seconds. I haven’t used those two, though my HP Mini does include HP’s QuickWeb based in part on SplashTop. Questions: How would you rate MeeGo compared to some of the embedded Linux OSes for netbooks like Expressgate/SplashTop? I wouldn’t be surprised to see Intel and AMD splitting the mobile segment with ARM in the next two years as folks want their phones and tablets to do more and more stuff which ends up negating the whole point of ARM which was a simple design that sipped power. Questions: How would you rate MeeGo compared to some of the embedded Linux OSes for netbooks like Expressgate/SplashTop? How is the boot time? app support? Do you dual boot and if so how hard was it to set up? How about drivers, how stable are they?īecause while I have the EEE PC and love Expressgate (6 seconds cold boot and tons of apps) I’d love to find something similar for my customers with Atom based like the Dell mini 9.Īs for TFA this is something I figured would happen sooner or later, as both Intel with atom and AMD with bobcat keep coming up with lower and lower powered chips while at the same time ARM seems to be sucking ever more power as it tries to get higher performance but in the end even low end Atom and Bobcat just stomps ARM when it comes to IPC.
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