My Cloudbook experience...
 

I just wanted to share my cloudbook experiences in case anyone else is in similar boat...

Firstly, the cloudbook everex is really cool - its the gOS which caused problems. The gOS was great if you never changed anything, but as its linux the first thing you do is generally check for updates and, well, brick the machine. Not good.

I just installed xubuntu 8.10 on it (it 'just works') and its running (almost) great. Graphics sometimes go a little weird and the headphone jack isn't working. The volume jumps around a bit and youtube was slow. The boot time was little better than gOS.

On the up side, I have openoffice 3 and lots of newer software....

Similar to the gOS, sometimes adobe flash crashes the browser (not even responsive to ctrl-alt-del or reisub will work and you have to unplug the battery - ouch).

I'm running Opera as the main browser which is much faster. I've also started playing around with icewm (installed from xubuntu) which is also much faster! Watching youtube is still slower than in gOS (don't know why).

Anyone else have a cloudbook?

No cloudbook, but I find it interesting that doing an update killed your OS.. I've seen that theme repeated among the different netbook manufaturers with their default OS's Quite a few posts from Acer Aspire One users who did an update and lost Wireless, or some other function opn their netbook. Sad when the manufacturer controls where you get your updates from then the updates kill your netbook.

Glad to hear you are enjoying your new hardware :)

Quick update: upgraded to xubuntu 9.04 and all is well.

You have to get cpufreq working to get videos to work properly. (Cloudbook runs at 600MHz rather than advertised 1.2GHz, unless you tell it otherwise. Theres a post on forum.netbookuser.com thats describes this in detail.) Headphones still not working. Graphics much better though! Still occationally locks up, which seems to be temperature/hardware related.....

setting cpufreq-set -d 800MHz seems to stop the lockups.... So besides headphones xubuntu is working great on my cloudbook!