fluxflux-eee 2008 08 released
August 3, 2008 – 4:49 pmFluxflux-eee, the pclinuxos 2008 remaster under Openbox windows manager has been released, as the 2008 08 version.
We have written about the previous version here, and the project developer is kindly offering us all a new version with many improvements. The .iso image of the system can be downloaded at the official page.
You can create a bootable live USB with fluxflux in various ways:
- By copying the files from the .ISO to your USB pendrive, and run the bootloader installer (bootinst.sh for linux, bootinst.bat under windows).
- By burning the Disk image, boot it, and use a provided script.
- With unetbootin. I was curious about how the nifty tool would do with the .ISO, and it worked perfectly.
The overall design has been vastly improved.
The wireless drivers have been updated with a more recent madwifi release. Everything works out of the box.
I brought my eee pc to the neighbor’s house, which is about 130 feet and two walls away from my router, and I didn’t loose the wifi connection.
Openoffice has been replaced with a lighter Word processor, AbiWord, and Firefox 3 is the default browser.
The ISO file size has been reduces to 513MB. When installed on the Solid State Drive, fluxflux eee takes up ti 1.55GB, making it suitable for an installation on an Eee PC 2G Surf.
Owners of the newer eee pc 900 will be delighted to find customized settings for their model.
The DVB-T standard is widely used in Europe and Australia for digital TV broadcasting. If you live in those parts of the world, you will find useful programs to watch and record DVB on the eee. Your eee pc, with an affordable USB DVB tuner, can be transformed into a portable television and a DVR system.
7 Responses to “fluxflux-eee 2008 08 released”
Well I’ve just tried installing this to my Eee 701, and it leaves just 500Mbs free.
I haven’t added any new programs, so mystified where all the space has gone.
This with 08 version.
By Vanamonde on Aug 25, 2008
Hello Vanamonde and welcome!
It looks like the installation you made was on a 2GB partition, so maybe you still have the Xandros recovery partition on your eee pc?
Asus left a partition for fast recovery, taking half of the SSD.
If it is the case, you could erase and format all the partitions, and then reinstall fluxflux-eee.
Cheers
By admin on Aug 25, 2008
very interesting distro but i can’t use it due to wifi troubles …don’t know if users report already those kind of troubles …
please it would be nice to give me a solution …
thanks in advance …
By mchasard on Sep 3, 2008
Hello MChasard,
If I can recall, wifi made you troubles with eeebuntu too?
Does it work with other hotspots?
It may be possible your router is the source. I remember spending a lot of time configuring a wifi adapter to work with a Freebox. It drove me crazy, I couldn’t make a stable connection, tried manual DNS settings,various encryptions and all.
In the end, disabling channel hopping in the Freebox (router) solved the problem.
By admin on Sep 3, 2008
Thanks for your answer , but with eeebuntu i installed wicd instead of network manager and all is working now …with eeepcllinuxos also i have no troubles to connect me via wifi …but with fluxfluxeee which is based on the same pclinuxos base …i can’t reach wifi connexion …even i can see all the network channel available …
so i don’t know what’s wrong …
By mchasard on Sep 7, 2008
Those can be very frustrating problems
I think eeepclinuxos 3-1 is using an older kernel to ensure a better wifi compatibility, so it interacts a bit differently with the madwifi drivers than fluxflux.
Glad you got it working that way, the info will be useful to others
Best wishes
By admin on Sep 9, 2008