Friday, November 14, 2008

Ubuntu 8.10 on pendrive: Lovin' it

I've been running my Acer Travelmate 2483 laptop (1.73 GHz / 1.5GB RAM) on Ubuntu 8.10 for a week or so. It runs off a 4GB Toshiba USB pendrive.

This is a HUGE improvement over the Windows Vista hog that boots from the hard disk. The system is much more responsive and does everything much faster than Vista. The Ubuntu GNOME desktop gives me most of the eye candy that Microsoft's 'Aero' has copied from Apple and innovative Linux/Unix desktops. Microsoft won't let me have Aero on on my Vista Home Basic system. I'd have to upgrade to Home premium for that.

Ubuntu is cheaper, easier and faster.

If you haven't tried this, do it.

Use a 16GB pendrive though. The 4GB one I'm using leaves me only about 1.5GB of free space for files....which can be a bit tight. I compensate by using another 4GB USB pendrive inserted into my DLink wireless Storage Router for additional space. Ubuntu has no trouble accessing the Windows share on the router, but Vista has problems seeing it and I had to reconfigure the firewall and security settings.
Posted by Steve Withers at 9:42 PM
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  1. mJanuary 25, 2009 3:47 PM

    How did you run Ubuntu off a 16gb pen drive? I've tried every tutorial on ubuntu and pendrivelinux but I am either stuck with only 4gb recognized (FAT32) or a "DRIVER ERROR" on boot (partitions).

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