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Another Linux Distro for Asus' Eee PC Laptops: eeebuntu

Our sister blog jkOnTheRun has a good story about eeebuntu, a new Ubuntu Linux distribution that is specifically customized for Asus' popular Eee PC laptops. You can go with the snazzy Compiz Fusion enabled GNOME version or go plain-vanilla with the Ubuntu Netbook Remix packages. You can get the distro here, and you can quickly return to the Eee PC's normal Xandros Linux if you want. Quite a bit of open source software comes with eeebuntu, including Working WiFi, OpenOffice, Pidgin, Skype, Firefox 3.0.1, and the VLC media player. Those little Eee PCs are a steal at around $350, by the way. I have one. Check out jkOnTheRun's thoughts, with video.


OStatic Buffer Overflow.....

Funambol has enhanced its native open source wireless sync app for iPhone 2.0. The software is free and open source, unlike Apple's MobileMe service.....

New version of OpenOffice fixes critical bug.....

PCMag.com has a nice, step-by-step primer on dual-booting Linux and Windows XP on an Asus EeePC 900 laptop.....

Does Sun's SOA strategy really get open source?.....



Asus Forecasts Quarterly Shipments Nearly Doubling for Eee PCs

There appears to be no stopping the success Asus is having with its Eee PC subnotebooks. The company is forecasting this week that it will nearly double shipments of the svelte, low-cost machines in the second quarter. Shipments will rise to between 1.2 million to 1.3 million units, the company says, and it expects to move a whopping 5 million units this year. To put that in perspective, Asus shipped 350,000 units in the fourth quarter. Originally all Linux-based, the company will deliver a Windows-based Eee PC in early May. Can we expect the Linux versions to stick around?