Excessive geekery
Nov. 28th, 2009 02:57 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
libertangoSo I've had a first-gen Asus EEE 4G for a while now.
I'd already done the switch from "easy mode" to a desktop long ago, but... Well, the combination of the Xandros linux distro Asus went with and Firefox 2.x was getting long in the tooth. Some sites wouldn't even let me access them any more, since I needed an up-to-date version of Flash. If you google about, you'll see one of the most common complaints about the older EEEs is how hard they are to update their software.
So.
So I've been spending the last week-plus going through many different installs and distros, trying to find one that "feels right." (My intuitive/anthropomorphic "feel" for an OS is a strange, hard to describe thing. Frequently, OSes just feel wobbly to me.) EEEbuntu, Fedora 12, Ubuntu Netbook Remix... What I've settled in on is "plain old" Ubuntu 9.10 -- that is, it isn't optimized for netbooks at all, it's just the same ol' desktop you'd see in any standard PC installation.
Today, as a way to have a project to use the platform usefully, I've installed the LAMP stack (Linux, Apache web server, MySQL database, PHP program language), and used that as a base to install MediaWiki. MediaWiki is the package Wikipedia runs on. Now I have my own baby wiki on this cute mini-computer, to use as a notes-to-myself database, all linked together in the Wikipedia style.
No idea if my follow-through will be decent... but not a bad day's work, I think.
I'd already done the switch from "easy mode" to a desktop long ago, but... Well, the combination of the Xandros linux distro Asus went with and Firefox 2.x was getting long in the tooth. Some sites wouldn't even let me access them any more, since I needed an up-to-date version of Flash. If you google about, you'll see one of the most common complaints about the older EEEs is how hard they are to update their software.
So.
So I've been spending the last week-plus going through many different installs and distros, trying to find one that "feels right." (My intuitive/anthropomorphic "feel" for an OS is a strange, hard to describe thing. Frequently, OSes just feel wobbly to me.) EEEbuntu, Fedora 12, Ubuntu Netbook Remix... What I've settled in on is "plain old" Ubuntu 9.10 -- that is, it isn't optimized for netbooks at all, it's just the same ol' desktop you'd see in any standard PC installation.
Today, as a way to have a project to use the platform usefully, I've installed the LAMP stack (Linux, Apache web server, MySQL database, PHP program language), and used that as a base to install MediaWiki. MediaWiki is the package Wikipedia runs on. Now I have my own baby wiki on this cute mini-computer, to use as a notes-to-myself database, all linked together in the Wikipedia style.
No idea if my follow-through will be decent... but not a bad day's work, I think.
