Got my Cubox

Thomas Milne thomas.bruce.milne-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w at public.gmane.org
Fri Jun 22 11:51:28 UTC 2012


Coming at you from my new Cubox, actually one of two that I bought on
an impulse one day a few months ago and forgot about...

Anyway, it doesn't impress me as much as I thought it would, which I
would have known if I did a little research, so I don't blame the
developers.

For one thing, I needed to reinstall dbus right away, in order to be
able to change the date and for the sound to work. Actually, prior to
that the network was not connecting either, but once I pulled out the
network cable and plugged it in again it found the router.

What I was not aware of is that there are no packages available for
things like XBMC or even Chrome or Flash, so I've got no reason to
connect this to a TV just yet. The instructions for getting XBMC
working on here seem to imply drastic changes to the built-in
software, so I'm hesitant to try that just yet.

And overall the system seems surprisingly slow. It is pretty much what
I had with my old AMD Sempron. I suppose it might work better with a
different OS running, but again I misunderstood something, because I
could have sworn they said this came with both Ubuntu Linux and
Android OS. Most applications are very slow to respond, especially if
more than a few are running at the same time.

I'll say this, it sure is small and quiet ;)

If anyone else has their Cubox and can share some of their successes
with this device I would be very happy to learn about it, I would
especially be interested in shortcuts for getting XBMC or at least
something similar working.

Also, I have an extra Cubox, so if anyone is really desperate to get
their hands on one I currently have no imminent need for it.

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Thomas Milne
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