Comments on: CrunchEEE (CrunchBangLinux) on the ASUS EEE 701 PC

By: Robeee

Robeee — Sun, 23 Aug 2009 17:04:35 +0000

Hi,

I’m looking for a fast booting distro for my Eee 701 4G.
I’m currently running Jaunty 9.04 NBR, like it but take a long time too but (90 seconds) and take a lot of space on my 4 G SSD.
I’ve tried EEEUbuntu, Linux Mint, and I’m running Crunchee (live USB) for 2 days (Everything seems to work well, did’nt try the webcam though)
Should I definitely install Crunchee ?
How much space does it takes once installed ?
What about the updates ? Is Liferea working well on Crunchee (it is too damn slow on Jaunty NBR)

Thanks

By: TurboVomit

TurboVomit — Thu, 30 Apr 2009 15:47:30 +0000

Hi,

Try Puppeee, it’s smaller and faster

By: T3KH34D

T3KH34D — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 21:43:32 +0000

Crunchbangs interface is based off of LXDE ( light X desktop Environment) You can add a menu button to the bar on the bottom of the page quite easily. Just right lick on the space on the bar and click to add applets, the menu applet will give you an application menu. LXDE is a very good desktop environment. I’ve been using it for a while now and I really like it. Very low memory usage. If your wanting to make it run even better start using epiphany with the gecko engine or seamonkey-browser instead of Firefox. Firefox is a huge memory hog and will inflate exponentionally as you load more pages. Even Opera is better than Firefox on memory.

By: kaneda

kaneda — Fri, 13 Mar 2009 04:02:20 +0000

Tip for eeepc 701’s – mozilla makes lots of small writes which tends to slow down the SSD. Try creating a tmpfs, recreate your mozilla profile in that tmpfs mount and you’ll find Firefox speeds up quite a bit…

By: Ronnie

Ronnie — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 22:04:49 +0000

I can’t speak for the heat created using CrunchEEE, but really it’s just an Ubuntu foundation with the OpenBox GUI (instead of Gnome).

I used to like Xfce, but it just seems to be a slightly cut down Gnome these days, not as lightweight as some make it out to be. EEEXubuntu, is just Xubuntu for the EEE (using Xfce), EEEUbuntu is just Ubuntu for the EEE (with Gnome) and you can, with tinkering, get Kubuntu (Ubuntu with KDE) on there too.

But I’ve stuck with CrunchEEE at the moment as it’s nice to look at, and fast.

Of course there are other distros like Puppy (PupEEE) and Damn Small Linux, but they aren’t as well supported as Ubuntu. But they are lightning fast on the EEE. I used PupEEE for a while, just that sometimes you can’t get an up to date pup file of the app you want/need.

My advice: give them ALL a try, what have you got to lose? Nothing. They’re all free!

By: sindhu

sindhu — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 18:30:52 +0000

Currently am using EEEBUNTU standard, it’s real neat, but comes with gnome, I was wondering if I should move to a lighter wm like fluxbox or openbox or get xfce OR should I get crunchee? or eeeXubuntu? So many options, but all I want is the an os that won’t heat up eee pc (its just currently warm…but you know less resources used the better).

By: Andreas

Andreas — Sun, 04 Jan 2009 17:54:50 +0000

Had CrunchEee for a few days now on my EeePC, but I’m not really satisfied. Sometimes it’s a bit slow, especially using Firefox.
The windowsmanager is ok, but I prefer a good old button at the bottomleft of the screen

And I can’t find the options for devices like mouse sensitivy etc.
It’s a quite good distro for the Eee, but a little bit not full-experience;)

By: Andreas

Andreas — Thu, 01 Jan 2009 20:56:33 +0000

Oh damn this is usefull:D
Downloading iso right now, gonna try it as soon as possible, it sounds really promising!