Southend Linux Wiki Site

I first heard about this distro on Linux Outlaws podcast, checked out the EEE user forums and found poeple had got it installed on their Asus EEE's, so I decided to download and install on my 701. This is what the official website has to say about Crunchbang :- "CrunchBang Linux" is an Ubuntu based distribution featuring the lightweight Openbox window manager and GTK+ applications. The distribution has been built and customised from a minimal Ubuntu install. The distribution has been designed to offer a good balance of speed and functionality."

*WARNING* Modifing your Eee will invalidate your warranty and can be destructive if not performed correctly, it is also addictive!

Now my shiny Eee is running Ubuntu nice and smoothly, it was time to invalidate the warranty and add some funky goodies in the shape of extra storage and bluetooth.

The 701 conveniently has some space next to the memory slot, and this is a great place to hide the newly added gadgets.
A quick trip to tesco's procured the necessary hardware

8gb usb pen drive
bluetooth adapter
4 port usb hub

Ubuntu Studio 8.04 (Hardy Heron) 64Bit

[http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/ubuntustudio/releases/8.04/beta/ubuntustudio-8.04-beta-alternate-amd64.iso] Live DVD and Installation on one 1Gb disk

How to disable Shutdown and Reboot for low level users in Ubuntu

I have a Linux machine used by my Wife and children and I wanted to remove the ability for them to shutdown or reboot the PC when they log off. I normally am in the process of downloading or have others things running in another session, shutting down terminates any process or applications that are running in other sessions. Looking around Google I found this link [http://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/linux-unix-remove-gui-shutdown-reboot-option Remove-gui-shutdown]

Next Generation Graphics Manager

If Beryl was something you toyed with before then you are going to like Compizfusion the ingenuity that put Beryl on the map as a serious contender to Vista, in our opinion Compizfusion is better still. Why is [http://www.go-compiz.org Compiz] better, possibly the reflection properties and the integration of the application within Gutsy Gibbon or Hardy Heron. As pretty much everything you need is already installed this section will focus more on the operational settings that enable you to enjoy the eyecandy rather than an installation matters.

Ubuntu 7.10 (Gutsy Gibbon)

[http://ubuntu.com Ubuntu.com] Live CD and Installation on one 700Mb disk Version 7.10 is another great advance for the first time in this distro version we have Eye Candy already installed by default. Ok it's subtle and you may not notice at first any changes but it is different, with a better graphics card such as NVidia or ATI sometimes the Eye Candy is even more remarkable.

Ubuntu 7.04 (Feisty Fawn)

[http://ubuntu.com Ubuntu.com] Live CD and Installation on one 700Mb disk

Ubuntu Version 6.06 LTS (Long Term Support) (Dapper Drake)

[http://ubuntu.com Ubuntu.com] Available as a two CD Set the Live CD version and Installable Version Version 6.06 was a great advance on it's predecessor Version 5.10 installation was much simpler and nearly installed on any hardware presented, it's ability to detect hardware and more importantly the network where also greatly improved. Distribution Upgrade from version 5.10 to Version 6.06 was abysmal and failed on all units that we tried them on.

Ubuntu Version 5.10 (Breezy Badger)

[http://ubuntu.com Ubuntu.com] Available as a two CD Set the Live CD version and Installable Version This was for all intense and purposes SoSLUG's first introduction to Mark Shuttleworths Linux concept and we loved it. Our original path was to install Gentoo onto our systems this we did with our and the MediaShed servers however this was never a viable option for our limited desktop systems. Ubuntu had everything we needed except suitable printer and shockwave flash support,

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