Saturday, July 11, 2009

Kuki Linux for AAO

So, I've been running gnome and eeebuntu on my AA1 basically since I got it..
I barely even gave Linpus a try, I am not really that much into those Fedora based distros.

The time then came when I realised that eeebuntu was really designed for the eee pc's.. even though it does support the AA1 quite nicely. I also realised that I didn't even really like the whole Gnome thing it had going down.
Gnome just isn't really my thing, it's too bulky and actually quite a bit monlithic. I think that's the perfect word actually. Almost sums Gnome up it it's entirety for me, just a personal thing I think.. I basically feel the same way about KDE too.

When you only have an 8 GB SSD drive who would want something as big as Gnome is anyways, and nice thing about eeebuntu is that it came loaded with Compiz and Open Office, which is nice, and I'd probably want to get Open Office sometime but for now I'm pretty darn pleased with my Kuki Linux installation.

Kuki Linux, basically based on the Kuki kernel from what I understand, specifically for the Acer Aspire One series. Once I had done a little bit of reading on this specific Linux distrobution it really appealed to me that it seemed so VERY lightweight. By default the window manager is Xfce, it comes with most of the Xfce applications packaged with it and it most definitely seems to me like it has a lot more customability for me than what eeebuntu ever had.

On another note, my wireless lights on my AA1 never worked when using eeebuntu, yes there was a hack for that which I just never bothered getting around to, I guess I should've but I just didn't. Now Kuki really impressed me this way.. upon installation wireless worked first time, and so did the lights (yay).. the sound worked 100%. (As a side note, my sound was never PERFECT when it came to eeebuntu, eeebuntu had so many options for my sound drivers and I never really knew specifically which one to use, I think it was ALSA but even once I had that one set.. now and then I would get some weird crackly sounds when playing sounds or music which really isn't what I wanted to hear :()

Right now, using Kuki I just have not heard those crackling sounds once, overall I am really impresseed. It books up really quick due to the fact that the kernel is packaged specifically for the AA1 series. Apparently the battery lasts longer too! Which is truly great.

Seems I have a whole lotta setting up to do from here on out though, in eeebuntu I had my Python setup already going with SPE as my IDE and all. But since I've done the fresh reset with Kuki I guess I really should start setting all that up again and getting my AA1 ready for development...

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