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| by Hamish Taylor | |
| Wednesday, 06 May 2009 | |
  
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Booting from the USB key was pretty trivial - hit the Escape key while the Eee PC is booting and select the USB device from the menu. Booting from the USB key only took a few moments. I went through the installation process, choosing to manual format the partitions to Ext4. I have a Windows XP Eee PC, with the 4GB+8GB SSDs. I still dual-boot with Windows and I choose to have my Linux home and root partitions separate. I keep the Windows installation on the 4 GB partition (Windows C:\), and install Ubuntu into the 8 GB partition (Windows D:\), using 3.3 GB for the home partition, 3.3 GB for the root partition and some swap space with the remainder. The entire install process took about 30 minutes and then I rebooted into the new system. UNR booted very quickly and is quite responsive. Considering the system requirements for Windows 7 as stated by Stan Beer in his article here, I was interested to find out what the disk and RAM usage of UNR was, so I checked using System Monitor and Disk Usage. The results are rather interesting. Disk usage /home (where user related files are) = 153 MB / (root – where the system files are) = 2.34 GB Positively miserly when compared to Windows 7 minimum requirements for a 16 GB disk! RAM usage At startup: 237.0 MB And with the following applications running Firefox: 258.9 MB Open Office Writer: 278.6 MB Rythmbox: 294 MB VLC: 314.1 MB F-Spot Photo Manager: 339.2 MB FileZilla: 351.8 MB Deluge: 372.5 MB OpenOffice Spreadsheet: 380.9 MB OpenOffice Presentation: 396.8 MB Movie Player: 420.8 MB (playing a movie increased it to 440 MB) At this point I gave up. When you have 10 applications open at the same time and you're still using less than 50% of the available RAM (994 MB), you know something is going well. The final result is a fast booting, good looking Netbook. Thanks Canonical! |
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