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?
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