Comments on: All I’m Saying, Is, Give Eee a Chance! http://winentrip.wordpress.com/2008/07/17/all-im-saying-is-give-eee-a-chance/ A quest for travel, wine and food. Wed, 06 May 2009 21:28:25 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 By: ubuntucat http://winentrip.wordpress.com/2008/07/17/all-im-saying-is-give-eee-a-chance/#comment-22 ubuntucat Fri, 18 Jul 2008 05:19:28 +0000 http://winentrip.wordpress.com/?p=53#comment-22 Loving my Eee as well. I will say, though, that the version of Linux (Xandros) that comes with it isn't the most securely designed. So, despite the fact that there aren't any Linux viruses in the wild, if there were, the Linux that comes with the Eee would be a prime target, since it allows the user to escalate any command to root (system-wide) privileges without password authentication. I'm running Ubuntu on mine and am quite happy with it. The major downside is the slow boot time. That's cool you get 10 seconds with Xandros. When I was running Xandros, I had about a 24-second boot time. Now, with Ubuntu, it's over a minute. Loving my Eee as well.

I will say, though, that the version of Linux (Xandros) that comes with it isn’t the most securely designed. So, despite the fact that there aren’t any Linux viruses in the wild, if there were, the Linux that comes with the Eee would be a prime target, since it allows the user to escalate any command to root (system-wide) privileges without password authentication.

I’m running Ubuntu on mine and am quite happy with it. The major downside is the slow boot time. That’s cool you get 10 seconds with Xandros. When I was running Xandros, I had about a 24-second boot time. Now, with Ubuntu, it’s over a minute.

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