Good to hear from you, Fred.
On 10/31/2012 03:43 PM, fred smith wrote:
On Wed, Oct 31, 2012 at 03:22:55PM -0400, Robert Moskowitz wrote:
I have 1Gb of memory upgrade, so I have enough memory. My SSD is only
4Gb, but I have a 16GB SD card.
I've got F17 installed on my eeepc 901, the model that originally came
with their brain-dead version of Linux, and therefore has 20 gigs
(total) of SSD (whereas the Windoze version only has 16). F17
installs fine on it, without (as far as I can remember, it having
been several months) any undue problems.
So the SSD is setup for /boot with 300Mb, swap with 1.6Gb and the rest
is /var. The SD is /
This machine has a 4 gig (C:) and a 16 gig (D:), and I let the installer
choose LVM, merging the two SSDs together into a single 20 gig partition.
I'd prefer to have the 4 and 16 gig units as separate partitions, but
there's no way a reasonably complete system will fit on a 4 gig drive.
I tried it in earlier versions (F12/13/14). The 4 gig SSD is considerably
faster (well, less slow) than the 16, so the system feels more responsive
when the bulk of the system is installed there. Using the LVM gives you no
way to ensure it installs system components on the faster part of the
20 gig LVM.
The challenge with the install is the small screen size. I complained
about this and submitted a bug on it with f14 (which was the only
install I have made on this ee701). Apparently the developers did not
You're aware that you can drag an APP window around on the screen by clicking
anywhere within it while holding down ALT? This lets you slide the top of
the window off the screen so you can see the buttons at the bottom.
I do this all the time after I was showed it originally on the ee701
with f14. But it does not work with the install screens they just don't
move. I really tried....
feel it necessary to do anything about adjusting the dialog sizes to the
actual screen size. For the most part I was able to guess what keys to
hit for the buttons cut off below the bottom of the screen. I could not
see how to setup a LVM on the SD, so it is just and ext4 partition.
Also I could not go into customizing the packages for the install and
although I did provide my local repos so I grabbed all the updates right
off, I had to just go with the standard graphic desktop package install....
Next I will have to do the gnome 3 customizations. Though I MIGHT just
leave it for the defaults for a while, rather than all the customzations
I did for this f16 notebook a year ago. I actually would like to wait
for f18 for upgrading my main notebook; I kind of like skipping releases...
I tried Gnome 3, but can't really say I like it. I'm currently using
MATE (which comes from a separate REPO, but I've heard will be officially
in F18), which acts very much like Gnome 2. (but there seems to be a
shorter list of panel applets, for example.)
I am a bit stubborn and am working within the Gnome 3 model. At some
point I am going to have to work with Win8 either on the family machines
or work, and knowing how to get a tablet GUI working on a mouse-based
system will serve me well.
Anyway. so far so good.
Glad to hear it even CAN be installed on a 701! :)
How's performance?
Decent. But WHAT is semanage doing? I move sshd to another port, so I
had to use semanage to enable that port. It had the CPU pegged for a
number of minutes.
Principally I am going to be using the system for watching educational
(really) mp4 videos with VLC.
The 901 takes only 5-7 seconds to suspend, and 4-5 to come back to life.
going to hibernate is slower, but still considerably faster than a
shudown/reboot cycle.
I will be finding this out soon enough.
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