presto

[luv2liv]

the beta i installed no longer works. im told it's available to buy for $20 after april 13th. anyone bought it? cant seem to find it anywhere

 

[lxskllr]

Is it worth $20?

I got some kind of Xandros with my Eee900, and I wasn't particularly impressed. I much prefer Ubuntu on the Eee.

 

[luv2liv]

how fast does ubuntu boots up? for Presto, it was under 15 secs. in contrast xp more than 45. i want something that boots up fast. anything!

 

[lxskllr]

Originally posted by: luv2liv
how fast does ubuntu boots up? for Presto, it was under 15 secs. in contrast xp more than 45. i want something that boots up fast. anything!

Ubuntu's a little pokey on the bootup, but release 9.04 is supposed to be a good bit faster. My Eee is generally plugged in, so I use suspend, and it boots up in seconds.

 

[SickBeast]

Ubuntu 9.04 took 22 seconds to boot on my Opteron 165 system w/ 7200rpm hard drive.

 

[oliwek]

lxskllr, did you try on a desktop pc with x-fi card? did you get sound from it (without installing creative linux driver)?

 

[lxskllr]

Originally posted by: oliwek
lxskllr, did you try on a desktop pc with x-fi card? did you get sound from it (without installing creative linux driver)?

No I didn't. I only used it on the Eee. I /think/ you may have to install the specific drivers to get the xfi to work. I recently booted to a live session of Ubuntu on my main rig, and it didn't have sound. That wasn't my reason for booting, so maybe simply un-muting the sound would have worked, but I don't think so.

 

[oliwek]

thank you, we both use an eee-pc netbook and x-fi in the desktop pc. I use ubuntu intrepid where i had indeed to install the official creative driver to get sound (there was a way around before that with OSS) in pulse audio (but the card is limited to stereo sound, no cmss3D, ....)