without-brains.net » EEE http://www.without-brains.net A software developer's blog Wed, 08 Sep 2010 20:26:37 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 Linux on my desktop and EEE http://www.without-brains.net/archives/46 http://www.without-brains.net/archives/46#comments Fri, 20 Nov 2009 15:18:16 +0000 Mark http://www.without-brains.net/?p=46 Continue reading →]]> Over the past few years I have mainly ran Ubuntu as my Linux of choice on desktops and laptops. I have run 9.04 on my EEE PC 900 for some time, and I have always been very pleased with it. My desktop has ran Windows XP for ages though, and I have been wanting to install a Linux distro on it for some time.

When Fedora 12 was released I decided to give that a go. I have to say that like Ubuntu it is easy to install and works really well. Unfortunately though I noticed that I could install packages without root priviliges as written here: http://linux.slashdot.org/story/09/11/18/2039229/Fedora-12-Lets-Users-Install-Signed-Packages-Sans-Root-Privileges. To me that is just an unacceptable security risk. I realise that this is just a policy setting (that you can re-configure), but I’m just not too fond of these types of defaults…

So I decided to back to Ubuntu. Unfortunately installing the 9.10 release did not go without problems, mainly because I had used some old CD-R(W) discs. Once I had a good CD-RW disc installation was a breeze though. A friend told me that next time I should use a USB drive instead :)

Because I’m so happy with Ubuntu 9.10, I also installed it on my EEE PC 900… using a USB drive :D

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