at me Last Thursday when writing a post, my system broke No, I didn’t break Baby-Dell, it was the Eeebuntu system that gave up. This dude was right when he wrote that  turning off the updates in Eeebuntu is at your own risk. My screen went black, I decided to reinstall Eeebuntu getting all the updates, yes I broke the wi-fi on purpose I am now accessing the internet by my Live USB stick, which means that I don’t have flash. Aaaah, Linux you’ve got to love it !

Remember my last post how I went raving and ranting on Ubuntu and its netbook remix that doesn’t have an out of the box solution for the broad com issue, even though this issue has been known for at least 3 years and Ubuntu, unlike Eeebuntu, has a professional team working on the software? Well by the end of this week I have most likely have Ubuntu UNR running on my Mini Dell People who have known me since my first BLOG must wonder why I still bother with Linux (that BLOG was all about living with hell, living with Linux )

You really do When I ended this post, which was in my opinion a cliffhanger, I stated that there was a baby on its way. I hoped to get texts, e-mails and comments saying stuff like “you pregnant?!!!” But I’ve gotten none of those

When I stated that there was a baby on it’s way I meant this baby:

Yes it is a Mini Dell I managed to get my hands on a Mini Dell 9. I bought her for several reasons, after the installation of Eeebuntu on my 701 Eee PC I noticed that it became slow and sluggish I was shocked to notice that despite my giving the total 4 GB SSD to / and giving an 8 GB SD Card to  /home that this still didn’t seem to be enough,  I’ve also experienced crash after crash and software that wouldn’t run properly I am not blaming the dudes behind Eeebuntu here btw. They have day jobs and Eeebuntu is a side hobby for them, I can imagine that they can’t keep up with Ubuntu’s new releases twice a year (something I’ve always considered to be bullshit). I understand that they ultimately chose for next Eeebuntu to be based on Debian instead of Ubuntu for more stability. I find it quite strange that even though we are at version of Karmic Koala of Ubuntu you still have to fix the Broadcom issue manually, this issue is known since at least Edgy Eft (granted not for the UNR, there wasn’t an UNR then) but still that is just 6 goddamn versions ago and still it’s not fixed

The second reason why I bought the Mini Dell 9 is because if there is something that pisses me off about netbooks, it’s that they get bigger and bigger You now have netbooks that have 11 inch screens, wtf is that? The only 9 inch netbooks you can find these days are just like mine – second hand, they are not being produced anymore. A shame in my opinion, in a year or so you’ll probably see a proud advertisement of a netbook with a 15” screen Aren’t netbooks supposed to be small light and provide you with ultimate mobility

The third reason why I went for the Mini Dell 9 is the fact that you can upgrade it easily. I have to give Dell props for foreseeing that people would love to tweak their Mini’s While I’ve never upgraded my desktops I can’t wait to tweak my Mini. Did you know that people have even replaced their screens with touch screens?

The fourth reason why I bought the Mini Dell is because I hate the horrible looks of the current models of the Eee PC They look like they are created by designers who got rejected at Apple () then went off with their noses in the air while thinking “I’ll show them at Apple”. Guess what they don’t While I don’t give too much about the looks, I’d rather not be seen with the current Eee PC models I want to have something that looks like a Mini laptop Dell clearly understands this.

Anyway, the name of this Mini Dell 9, is Baby-Dell (a friend of mine already christened her to Baby-D). Look here is the proof:

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Yes it is a she and I am very happy with her. She is black and has some scratches on the top, but I don’t mind as it makes her less stealable. And I’m trying to buy as many pink accessories for her as possible. I carry her around in a Zeroshock sleeve.  Their marketing department… now how to appeal to their goretex fetishist by using “wavin’ ravin’ protective gear” as a tagline

Baby-Dell runs on Eeebuntu, it doesn’t run smoothly and I had to turn the updates off as you can read here. Of course I didn’t listen to him blindly, I had to find out the hard way that is better to turn the updates off Not updating Eeebuntu means that I hardly can remove or add software. I managed to get flash working by doing it the windows way, i.e. not using Terminal, Syntapic or the add/remove option in Linux. Other then that I think this looks cool:

(cliccie on piccie to see the true size of my screen)