{"id":239,"date":"2008-03-09T01:00:01","date_gmt":"2008-03-09T08:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.princessnybor.com\/?p=239"},"modified":"2010-05-05T00:45:34","modified_gmt":"2010-05-05T07:45:34","slug":"goodbye-xandros-hello-ubuntu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.princessnybor.com\/?p=239","title":{"rendered":"Goodbye, Xandros. Hello, Ubuntu."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As many of you know, I have an Asus Eee PC. It is a wonderful little  laptop, and I carry it in my purse. One of the things that first  attracted me to the Eee PC is the fact that it runs Linux, which I had  never really played with much. I know, I&#8217;m losing geek cred here, but  stay with me.<\/p>\n<p>It came with a very cute customized installation  of Xandros, running something called &#8220;easy mode&#8221; by default. It has a  handy tabbed interface, with plenty of productivity software out of the  box. Firefox, Thunderbird, and Open Office are all included. Here&#8217;s what  it looks like.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.eeeeducation.com\/images\/asus_homescreen_eeePC_600.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.eeeeducation.com\/images\/asus_homescreen_eeePC_600.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"524\" height=\"314\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>While I  loved the interface at first, I started to feel a little confined by it,  so I enabled &#8220;Advanced Mode&#8221;, which gives you a full KDE desktop  interface. It looks a little something like this.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.threepipeproblem.com\/snapshot1.png\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.threepipeproblem.com\/snapshot1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"524\" height=\"314\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>But then the Xandros OS  itself started to cramp my style. The more I used the Eee, the more  comfortable I became with Linux. The problem is that a highly customized  version of a pay distro isn&#8217;t really the best introduction to Linux.  Linux is all about customization, but all the juicy repositories would  break Xandros.<\/p>\n<p>So, I am officially waving &#8220;goodbye&#8221; to Xandros. I  am installing Ubuntu on my Eee PC as we speak. <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/services.shawnwilsher.com\/smilies\/lol.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"15\" height=\"15\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As many of you know, I have an Asus Eee PC. It is a wonderful little laptop, and I carry it in my purse. One of the things that first attracted me to the Eee PC is the fact that it runs Linux, which I had never really played with much. I know, I&#8217;m losing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"bgseo_title":"","bgseo_description":"","bgseo_robots_index":"","bgseo_robots_follow":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-239","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.princessnybor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.princessnybor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.princessnybor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.princessnybor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.princessnybor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=239"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.princessnybor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":241,"href":"http:\/\/www.princessnybor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239\/revisions\/241"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.princessnybor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=239"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.princessnybor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=239"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.princessnybor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=239"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}