Comments on: Vespa: My Pink Dell Mini9 w/ Ubuntu https://princessleia.com/journal/2008/12/vespa-my-pink-dell-mini9-w-ubuntu/ Elizabeth Krumbach Joseph's public journal about open source, mainframes, beer, travel, pink gadgets and her life near the city where little cable cars climb halfway to the stars. Sun, 18 Jul 2010 21:20:55 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.2 By: pleia2 https://princessleia.com/journal/2008/12/vespa-my-pink-dell-mini9-w-ubuntu/comment-page-1/#comment-2850 Sun, 18 Jul 2010 21:20:55 +0000 http://princessleia.com/journal/?p=1405#comment-2850 Thanks Kim! I’ll see what I can do to fix this.

All my photos and content are licensed with a Creative Commons license and all I ask for is attribution so it’s unfortunate that someone stole it like this.

]]> By: Kim https://princessleia.com/journal/2008/12/vespa-my-pink-dell-mini9-w-ubuntu/comment-page-1/#comment-2847 Sun, 18 Jul 2010 15:43:41 +0000 http://princessleia.com/journal/?p=1405#comment-2847 Just thought you might like to know someone is using your photo as their own.
http://www.cafemom.com/photos/view.php?photo_id=13707647&ct=user

]]> By: Bradley Thomson https://princessleia.com/journal/2008/12/vespa-my-pink-dell-mini9-w-ubuntu/comment-page-1/#comment-2430 Wed, 28 Apr 2010 01:57:55 +0000 http://princessleia.com/journal/?p=1405#comment-2430 the design of the MSI Wind is similar to the basic netbooks you can find around. the price point of this netbook is cheaper than acer or dell netbooks :

]]> By: Francisco https://princessleia.com/journal/2008/12/vespa-my-pink-dell-mini9-w-ubuntu/comment-page-1/#comment-1224 Sun, 18 Jan 2009 02:14:17 +0000 http://princessleia.com/journal/?p=1405#comment-1224 Soon I will recive my RED mini9 (2gb ram, 32 hd ssd, 1,3Mp camera, Buffalo extDVD, Screen Protector(the lest two from Amazon)). I was waithing for somting from Apple at MacWorld but no Netbooks from them. I come from MAC and I need HELP with Ubuntu. I’m also evaluating intalin OX10.5.6 on. But I dont Know yet. HELP ME. With Ideas. (p.s. By the way, they do Ubuntu for Doomies or Idiots? I qualify for both.)
Thanks to All.

]]> By: Juanjo https://princessleia.com/journal/2008/12/vespa-my-pink-dell-mini9-w-ubuntu/comment-page-1/#comment-1182 Thu, 01 Jan 2009 13:50:52 +0000 http://princessleia.com/journal/?p=1405#comment-1182 LinuxLover: I wasn’t blaming the RPM package format. I use CentOS in several production systems and there’s no problem with them.

The problem was the Linpus customization of the Fedora core 8.

]]> By: Darren https://princessleia.com/journal/2008/12/vespa-my-pink-dell-mini9-w-ubuntu/comment-page-1/#comment-1181 Thu, 01 Jan 2009 04:51:28 +0000 http://princessleia.com/journal/?p=1405#comment-1181 To get updates add the Ports repository:
deb http://ports.ubuntu.com/ubuntu-ports/ hardy main restricted universe multiverse
deb http://ports.ubuntu.com/ubuntu-ports/ hardy-updates main restricted universe multiverse
deb http://ports.ubuntu.com/ubuntu-ports/ hardy-security main restricted universe multiverse

The latest Broadcom driver is also in the proposed repo but I haven’t tested it yet.

I am not sure why these updates are not mirrored to the Dell repositories hosted by Canonical but anyway…

]]> By: davo https://princessleia.com/journal/2008/12/vespa-my-pink-dell-mini9-w-ubuntu/comment-page-1/#comment-1180 Wed, 31 Dec 2008 16:58:53 +0000 http://princessleia.com/journal/?p=1405#comment-1180 Call me cynical, but I’ve always had a theory about Dell/MS/Linux. I think Dell has an agreement with MS that Dell will only install crippled versions of Linux. There will always be some nagging problems. That way Linux will get a bad name and users will be taught a lesson the hard way. That lesson is, stay with Windows and you won’t have problems. Surely a company the size of Dell has the technical expertise to avoid the kinds of problems mentioned in this article, if they wanted to.

]]> By: oz_ollie https://princessleia.com/journal/2008/12/vespa-my-pink-dell-mini9-w-ubuntu/comment-page-1/#comment-1179 Wed, 31 Dec 2008 11:40:17 +0000 http://princessleia.com/journal/?p=1405#comment-1179 You can use a new feature in Ubuntu 8.10 to install Ubuntu to a USB thumb drive, but you can select any Ubuntu ISO or CD. Theoretically this means you could make one with the Dell Ubuntu DVD for simple “disaster” recovery back to a “factory” install. I don’t have a Dell Mini9 because I have an original Asus Eee PC 701 4G and an external USB DVD burner, but I’m still interested if this works.

You can also do this with a standard Ubuntu ISO and then add your own packages so you may be able to add the Broadcom support before actually installing to the Dell Mini9.

HTH – a Happy and Prosperous New Year to everyone :D

]]> By: andybleaden https://princessleia.com/journal/2008/12/vespa-my-pink-dell-mini9-w-ubuntu/comment-page-1/#comment-1178 Wed, 31 Dec 2008 11:01:46 +0000 http://princessleia.com/journal/?p=1405#comment-1178 ps also have a look at the ubuntu mini9 help page

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/DellMini9

]]> By: andybleaden https://princessleia.com/journal/2008/12/vespa-my-pink-dell-mini9-w-ubuntu/comment-page-1/#comment-1177 Wed, 31 Dec 2008 09:04:26 +0000 http://princessleia.com/journal/?p=1405#comment-1177 If you are worried about having to reinstall the iso image from your dvd there is another alternative assuming you have a usb pen. Forstly go to canonical and download the iso iamge for your system which I assume is still hardy? Go to your synaptic manager and seek out usb-creator which is an excellent easy to use live pen drive device which can you can use if you system goes pear shaped. You can make it persistent also so it can be used on other pcs should you need and store your profile.
Click here for a (k)ubuntu guide (use synaptic instead of adept etc etc)

http://kubuntuforums.net/forums/index.php?topic=3089474.msg161209#msg161209

Hope that helps

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