{"id":1680,"date":"2009-07-30T22:25:18","date_gmt":"2009-07-31T05:25:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/multimedia.cx\/eggs\/?p=1680"},"modified":"2009-07-30T22:26:46","modified_gmt":"2009-07-31T05:26:46","slug":"eee-pc-and-chrome","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/multimedia.cx\/eggs\/eee-pc-and-chrome\/","title":{"rendered":"Eee PC And Chrome"},"content":{"rendered":"

I complain about a lot of software on this blog. But I wanted to take this opportunity to praise some software for once– Easy Peasy<\/a> and Google Chrome<\/a>. I’ve had some ups and downs with my Eee PC 701 netbook<\/a>— great unit but the vendor-supplied Linux distribution was severely lacking. I auditioned some netbook-tailored distros<\/a> last year and found one that worked reasonably well while being a bit rough around the edges — Ubuntu-Eee. One notable problem I experienced a few weeks after I installed it was that the wireless network driver quit working (though to be fair, I understand that was a greater problem due to an Ubuntu update around the same time).<\/p>\n


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These days, Ubuntu-Eee has been renamed Easy Peasy. I was finally sufficiently motivated to try installing it when enough other things on my existing Ubuntu-Eee distro had broken. Essentially all the problems that troubled me in its predecessor distro have vanished– wireless works again (though I still can’t seem to toggle it), all the sound controls work, even the hibernation works which impressed me greatly (even if I never use it).<\/p>\n

Pertaining to web browsers, I have traditionally been satisfied with Firefox. Sure, it has been growing large in recent times, but what software hasn’t? It’s the price of software progress and all. However, I took this opportunity to try out Google Chrome which I never thought I would have reason to care about. I am roundly impressed with its speed and responsiveness. Seriously, this browser might even be lean enough for the guru<\/a> to consider using on a regular basis.<\/p>\n

I’m pleased that I can forgo a replacement for this classic Eee PC netbook for the foreseeable future.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Easy Peasy and Google Chrome breathe new life and utility into my Eee PC 701 netbook<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[215,217,216],"class_list":["post-1680","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-chrome","tag-easy-peasy","tag-ubuntu"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t