Got an EEE? Try Leeenux!
There have been countless Linux distros tailormade for the netbooks (firefly, eeebuntu 1, eeebuntu 2, eeebuntu 3, Ubuntu Netbook Remix, Jolicloud etc). Leeenux is not much different. Immediately after the Leeenux is loaded you will find striking resemblance with the Ubuntu Netbook Remix which has been bluntly copied by the folks at Jolicoud (review). The good thing about the Leeenux is that the operating system takes up only 1.2GB of disk space. More and more distributions have now phased-out support for the 7-inch eee 700-series, but Leeenux is not one of them. It is reported to work like a charm on the EEE 700-series.
The 2.0 update brings the new Firefox 3.7 beta, Thunderbird along with SNES and Sega Genesis emulators to keep you busy during the free time. Download size is just 359MB.
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Good article. I’ve tried several distributions on my EEE PC 701 2G and most were impossible to install or if I could install them then there was about 1% free space. Leenux is easy to install and works great.
I have downloaded, verified the MD5sum, extracted to USB drive and run the live version on my eeePC701 several times but I cannot install it. I get as far as the 4th of 5 steps but then it freezes. Even the quit/Cancel/Forward buttons do not show completely. Very frustrating as I think it could be an improvement on Ubuntu Remix. I have no room to update the latter even though I have but one partition for system and /home.
Any ideas anyone please?
what partiton did you select? i suggest using ext2
Thanks for the response Kamal. I had tried to over write the single 4G partition but did not notice any way to choose ext2 3 or anything else.
This morning I went through the install process again to take notes and this time it went the whole way apart from 3 (false I hope) error messages. Now I have an installed Leenux to test. If I have any more problems, I’ll let you know but so far so good. Thanks for laying on hands or whatever magic you did Kamal ;)
John, my friends often say I bring good luck to them. :) Glad things are working for you.
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