Experimenting With Software
I am experimenting again. I thought I had settled on a linux os for my Asus eeePC701 and was happily using Puppy linux and less happily Peppermint. I had also had some success with Jolicloud and thought that was it.
In fact though I kept reverting to the built in Debian linux that came supplied with the machine and is impossible to update as something in the way the package manager works is broken.
So the search continued for a really useable and updateable linux that will work well with the eeePC. I think I have found one now.... introducing eeebuntu which, as its name suggests, is an eeePC version or distro of the Ubuntu package. It is working fine at the moment and has built in the OpenOffice suite which is another thing I am experimenting with at the moment.
This week I have installed OpenOffice on my Acer Desktop PC running Windows Vista and on my main SanDisk USB memory stick. I am hoping that this will result in being able to work on documents and presentations on each platform and not having to convert files between them. This blog was written on the eeePC and then edited on the Vista PC ...so it works!
The big test will be this week as I try to create a presentation without using powerpoint at all and yet trying to keep it up to the standard of my current powerpoint creations.
experimenting is good as long as the risk is manageable and known.






