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Installing Google Chrome in Puppeee

I own an Asus Eee PC 900 (Intel Celeron M processor 900MHz). Of course you can only do so much with this machine so having an optimized OS does help a lot. Just recently I have replaced my OS/Linux distro with Puppeee (Linux 2.6.35.7celeron). This distro does feel light and fast. It comes with what you would expect from a descent distribution. The default web browser is Midori 0.2.9 (based on WebKit) which works okay. Unfortunately it does not work well with Pandora. It maybe because Pandora requires Flash support which I am not sure if Midori is configured in Puppeee to work with the plugin. I have used Pandora with Google Chrome so I was hoping that it might work with that browser. Installing Chrome is quite straightforward in Puppeee. First, download the latest from  http://puppeee.com/files/distsfs/ , I picked chrome-10.sfs  using Mindori. Once done, click Puppy menu -> System -> Control Panel . Select Software tab, then SFS-Loader load squash files . Browse to where you s

Installing Easy Peasy in EEE PC 900 using external hard drive

Easy Peasy is a linux distribution tuned for EEE PC (Asus Netbook) computers. http://www.geteasypeasy.com/ http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/boot/syslinux/ D:\Software\iso\syslinux\win32>syslinux.exe -m -a -d / i: -f Working with swapfile http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1042946&highlight=swapfile Swappiness https://help.ubuntu.com/community/SwapFaq#Performance%20tuning%20with%20%27%27swappi ness%27%27

Install Virtualbox in EeePc 900

Draft - draft - draft - draft /etc/app/sources.list deb http://update.eeepc.asus.com/p900 p900 main deb http://update.eeepc.asus.com/p900/en p900 main deb http://xnv4.xandros.com/xs2.0/pkg/ xs2.0-xn main non-free deb http://xnv4.xandros.com/xs2.0/upkg-srv2 etch main contrib non-free deb http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/debian etch non-free add public keys wget -q http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/debian/sun_vbox.asc -O- | sudo apt-key add - sudo apt-get install xandros-archive-keyring sudo apt-get install build-essential download sources http://support.asus.com/download/download.aspx unrar x Eee_PC_900_source_code_part1.rar dpkg --install linux-source-2.6.21.4-eeepc_17_all.deb cd /usr/src tar xvjf linux-source-2.6.21.4-eeepc.tar.bz2 cd linux-source -2.6 .21 .4 -eeepc ln /usr/src/linux-2.6.21.4 /usr/src/linux -s cd /usr/src/linux make oldconfig make prepare make all apt-get install virtualbox create a file, /bin/vbox/run sudo nano /bin/vboxrun and paste: --