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 saved chrome*.sfs then follow the prompts. You should be ready to use Google Chrome in no time.

Enjoy!
~ts

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:
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sudo /etc/init.d/vboxdrv start
sudo /etc/init.d/vboxnet start

/usr/bin/VirtualBox

sudo /etc/init.d/vboxdrv stop
sudo /etc/init.d/vboxnet stop
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chage file mode:
sudo chmod +x /bin/vboxrun

Copy or create asusadd:
http://forum.eeeuser.com/viewtopic.php?id=6645

For some reason the above script fails, try this:
mkdir /home/user/.AsusLauncher
then run :
sudo /bin/asusadd Work VirtualBox /bin/asusadd

sudo usermod -a -G vboxusers user
Logout to take effect

eeepc important information

Additional repository for Eee PC 900, see link.

Seems like location of simpleui.rc was changed in Eee900 PC. In my machine it is now located in:

/var/lib/AsusLauncher/

~ts