Our next meeting will be on Monday 12 May 2008 in Leeds University’s Stoner Building.
The meeting room is sign-posted from the main EC Stoner Building entrance.
The meeting officially starts at 7.00pm, but the room will be open for coffee, tea, biscuits and chat from 6.30pm.
Talk: Hardy Heron on the EeePC
Ubuntu’s new LTS version Hardy Heron was released last month and James Holden is going to give a talk on getting it to work on the EeePC.
- How to trial it on an SD card
- Backing up the existing OS
- Installation options (netboot, USB CD etc)
- Wireless support
- ACPI
- Sound
- External monitor
- Improving boot speed
- Fonts and cosmetic tweaks
- Visual effects
Location:
Active Learning Lab., (Level 9, near staircase 2)E.C. Stoner Building (aka Physics/Admin)
University of Leeds
Woodhouse Lane
Leeds UK
LS2 9JT
Directions:
- Getting to Leeds and Leeds University.
- Campus Map showing entrances and car parks.
- Location of E. C. Stoner Building on Campus.
Slides:
James’ slides can now be found on the WYLUG wiki in both OpenOffice Presentation (odp) and PDF formats.