Comments on: Adventures in Eee PC land

By: jmiahman

jmiahman — Tue, 12 Feb 2008 02:35:11 +0000

Check out EeePCLinuxOS it offers some pretty cool stuff, they’re now working on a fast init system to be integrated with there already compressed file system.

http://pclinuxoshwdb.com/eeepc/tiki-index.php

By: aubrey

aubrey — Wed, 30 Jan 2008 06:39:39 +0000

hi colin - i know you will get a buz out of reading this article on how these guys got OS X on to their Eee PC - 10.5 was a bit sluggish but 10.4.8 performed much better….

Load OSX 10.5 Leopard on the eeePC - http://uneasysilence.com/archive/2007/11/12654/

Vista on the Eee PC -
http://www.hackszine.com/blog/archive/2007/12/vista_on_the_eee_pc.html

HOWTO - Install Ubuntu on the Asus Eee PC -
http://www.hackszine.com/blog/archive/2007/11/howto_install_ubuntu_on_the_as.html

if you get it going - I want to see screenshots… I will buy you a beer if you can do it…

By: Alexey Zakhlestin

Alexey Zakhlestin — Mon, 28 Jan 2008 10:27:18 +0000

I’ve got the similiar eee, and similiarily didn’t like Xandros.

eeeXubuntu, on the other hand, is very neat
http://wiki.eeeuser.com/ubuntu:eeexubuntu:home

By: RSmith

RSmith — Sun, 27 Jan 2008 15:05:20 +0000

I’m planning on getting one, but may wait for the next version of it and possibly a slightly bigger screen. The first thing I’m gonna do is erase Xandros and put EeePCLinuxOS (the EeePC version of PCLinuxOS) on there with full KDE! If you think Ubuntu is easy to use, you haven’t tried PCLinuxOS…

By: lotso

lotso — Sun, 27 Jan 2008 08:56:49 +0000

What’s the price you paid in AUD? I finally saw it in Lowyat and there was GOBs of it there. The screen size is a tad small but I figure that It’s nice. It would be great if the battery would last like the whole day (hope) then I can actually use it as an ebook reader.

how does the CPU fare? Can it play AVI files and more importantly, is it speedy enough to play rmvb files?

By: James

James — Sun, 27 Jan 2008 02:29:41 +0000

Xandros has paid the Microsoft (patent) protection racket, so ASUS (which is a huge OEM) isn’t going to get sued by Microsoft for shipping it.

By: byte

byte — Sun, 27 Jan 2008 00:45:03 +0000

Agreed Hub, agreed. The choice of applications were not smart at all. I was however, impressed that on the desktop, they had some links to online applications (Wikipedia, Google Docs) - one wonders if the online desktop concept is coming into play, in the future.

Xandros is by far, a pretty bad Linux distribution. If ASUS were smart, they’d have gone Ubuntu, seeing that its easy to use, and well supported. If it were Ubuntu on the eeePC (and a not locked down version either), I’d have kept the OS, with no issues whatsoever.

eeedora does have its own set of quirks, that I’m sure I’ll go through and fix, in due time. Its nice to be hacking on distro stuff again ;)

By: HUb

HUb — Sat, 26 Jan 2008 17:11:13 +0000

Why not evince? because it is KDE based (wait, they ship pidgin…). Then they could put kpdf, but that would assume that the people that did the firmware actually had a clue. The more proprietary stuff the push in, the happier they are. I’m convince that Asus chose the worst provider for their Linux-based OS.

I think you did yourself a favor installing a real distro.