Comments on: Eeebuntu 4.0 to drop Ubuntu for Debian

By: oblio

oblio — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 16:03:41 +0000

Call it Exbuntu now…..:-) ? Or Eeedebian?

There's the exact reason why Warren Woodford gave up on *buntu and returned to the Debian Base with Mepis 7.0, 8.0 and now the upcoming 8.5/9.0

By: oblio

oblio — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 12:03:41 +0000

Call it Exbuntu now…..:-) ? Or Eeedebian?

There's the exact reason why Warren Woodford gave up on *buntu and returned to the Debian Base with Mepis 7.0, 8.0 and now the upcoming 8.5/9.0

By: miksuh

miksuh — Sat, 24 Oct 2009 01:03:59 +0000

suggedt = suggest

By: miksuh

miksuh — Sat, 24 Oct 2009 01:02:41 +0000

If you want something like that then I suggedt Eeeli, based on my little nephew called Eeli “li” could then also mean linux

hehe

By: kgfowler

kgfowler — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 21:32:50 +0000

Why not just call it Debeee?

-kf

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By: Litho

Litho — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 19:36:53 +0000

I think they should drop the eee part altogether. Would appeal to folk who use other netbooks/systems.

By: xeraen

xeraen — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 18:40:52 +0000

How about Eeenix, Eeenux, or Eeenu? =)

By: Garry

Garry — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 18:26:56 +0000

The new name better be totally different than *buntu or xxEbian. Otherwise the name will need to be changed again each time the Dev team wants to change the base distro.

By: Eeebuntu 4.0 to drop Ubuntu for Debian | Debian-News.net - Your one stop for news about Debian

Tue, 20 Oct 2009 17:04:46 +0000

[...] away from Ubuntu in its next release. Instead, Eeebuntu 4.0 will be based on Debian Unstable. More here A few days ago one of the members of the Eeebuntu Linux development team threw up his hands in [...]

By: HyRax

HyRax — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 04:19:45 +0000

Well, since they're going to have to change the name now, I'll just put out there that “Eeebian” sounds just as ludicrous…

By: Praxis

Praxis — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 23:51:32 +0000

I can see why the Eeebuntu team moved to Debian, Mepis did the same thing after having switched to Ubuntu for a couple of years. But to base the distro on Unstable seems bizarre. Sid is called unstable for a reason, being the developmental branch, it is in a constant state of flux (he says typing this on a Chaos sidux install from early 2007). That means it is constantly ramming big changes down the users throat, even when they aren't ready for prime time. It also means that if you update your system often (which is really the best way to track sid) you are downloading hundreds of GB a month. And with an under-powered netbook even installing those updates takes a very significant chunk of time (I know, I have sidux XFCE installed on my Acer One). I don't even think that basing the distro on testing would be a great solution for the same reasons (though I have limited experience with testing). A hybrid system based on stable with some stuff added from testing and sid would be more difficult to manage, but I think would provide a better end-user experience if done correctly.

By: turn_self_off

turn_self_off — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 21:06:28 +0000

as a current eeebuntu user, i am looking forward to this.

as for the name, eeebian sounds good to me (as good as anything with 3 e at the start can sound that is).

By: Bilal

Bilal — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 18:42:40 +0000

I second the Eeebian suggestion