[GRLUG] Eee PC

Don Ellis don.ellis at gmail.com
Wed Mar 23 20:00:13 EDT 2011


Try: http://getchrome.eu/download.php

I run Parallels on my Mac, and one of the menu items downloads and
installs a Chrome OS VM -- another way to try it out. It's pretty
different, as OSes go.

--Don Ellis


On Wed, Mar 23, 2011 at 4:44 PM, David Wise <davidn.wise at gmail.com> wrote:
> I've thought about Chrome, anyone have a DL link so I can test it out in a
> VM? I'm making a few of them with various distro's to see which she likes.
>
> I might try my hand at soldering more storage to the unused internal USB
> I've heard about, if the 900 still has that feature.
> --
> Dave
>
>
>
> On Wed, Mar 23, 2011 at 11:48 AM, Matt Michielsen <mattmichielsen at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>>
>> You can always put the apt cache on a flash drive in the SD slot or
>> any USB storage device. That's how I was able to run dist-upgrades on
>> my 900A when it still had a 4G SSD.
>>
>> On Wed, Mar 23, 2011 at 11:40 AM, Dagny Scott <parsleyfirefly at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>> >>
>> >> Come on now. You could sit on an LTS release (Ubuntu 10.04) for up to 3
>> >> years or you can 'sudo do-release-upgrade' and upgrade over the
>> >> Internet. I
>> >> had one desktop at work that I upgraded through every release from 6.06
>> >> through 10.04 without reinstalling.
>> >>
>> >
>> > The Eee 700 (original Eee) wouldn't do a dist-upgrade because it didn't
>> > have
>> > enough hard drive space.
>> >
>> > Dagny
>> >
>> >
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