CrunchBang Linux on the Asus Eee PC
I have received a number of messages over the last few weeks regarding CrunchBang Linux and the Asus Eee PC. I do not own an Eee myself, so it has been nice to hear from people who do and who have tried the distribution on their systems. The feedback which I have received has been extremely positive and users seem to be pleased to report that CrunchBang Linux runs really quite well on their nifty little netbooks.
It should be said that the distro was not designed with netbooks in mind. Indeed, the first Asus Eee PCs had only just been released when the first release of CrunchBang was being put together. Having said that, it is not hard to imagine that the distro might actually perform well on the netbook platform. I mean, Openbox is somewhat lighter than some of the full desktop environments like GNOME and KDE.
Anyhow, not long after opening the new forums, snowpine, our resident #! Eee PC Master, created a new thread for anyone wanting to discuss running CrunchBang Linux on their triple Es. If this interests you, it may be worth a look. Also worth a look is a really good write-up of one user’s experiences of running CrunchBang Linux on his Asus Eee PC 901, it can be found on the EeeUser.com forums.
If you have already tried CrunchBang Linux on your Eee, why not let others know what you think of it, what you like about it and what could be improved. Leave a comment below, or register and post on the forums.
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November 30th, 2008 at 6:08 pm
I have an Asus Aspire One, with Linpus Linux. I destoyed it all so i´m switching to your distribution very happy to find a light and ubuntu based one.
I´ll tell you what happens. I´ll use the guide https://help.ubuntu.com/community/AspireOne110L?highlight=((AspireOne))
for Ubuntu/Xubuntu… and see if it works allright. :)
November 30th, 2008 at 6:53 pm
@Darkgaze: Good luck with the installation. I will look forward to reading about how it goes.
November 30th, 2008 at 9:36 pm
Hi there!
It´s great. Absolutly great, yes!.
I tell people with AspireOne to read that guide i told you before and it will go perfectly.
Fan speed works, aparently, Wireless too, but led on the laptop doesn´t work (only that, but it works on software) … as it is told on the guide.
I think this will go perfect. Black, and elegant. Thanks!
dg
ps:Do you want me to do any trial?
January 18th, 2009 at 4:36 am
I also have an Aspire One, I think I’m gonna give a try at this nice looking faster Ubuntu as I love this distro! Should be multilingual like Ubuntu I guess? Can’t wait to CRUNCH this nice little Netbook hehehe.
March 15th, 2009 at 1:06 pm
“Aspire One” is not an Asus notebook, but ACER`s.
Acer Aspire One. =)
And it have a lot of difference with ASUS EEE PC.
April 10th, 2009 at 4:08 pm
Hi all…. I am new to this site, and I have just downloaded ‘crunchbag’ and the wiki to my USB drive, to install on my Eee 701 PC. I may need some help with this, as these pc’s are notorious for freezing up, and showing the lovely blue screen….. I did download the another brand of ‘boot cd’, but it did more harm than good, and didn’t restore anything, except DOS notes on how many directories I had, and NO space. 165 KB’s or something ridiculous like that. my bios system is telling me I have 504 MB of ram available, and there is nothing on my hard drive, except the bios and the network driver. Atheros. Any advice on how to install- if I need it would be amazing… and very much appreciated. One thing- do I have to install VM ware to help with this process? Great site! thanks! xoxox.
April 10th, 2009 at 4:20 pm
ps… I meant “Crunchbang” Sorry! :-)