{"id":710,"date":"2008-01-30T08:39:50","date_gmt":"2008-01-30T13:39:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/archives\/2008\/01\/30\/asus-eee-pc-olpc-all-in-one-week"},"modified":"2008-01-30T08:40:46","modified_gmt":"2008-01-30T13:40:46","slug":"asus-eee-pc-olpc-all-in-one-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/archives\/2008\/01\/30\/asus-eee-pc-olpc-all-in-one-week","title":{"rendered":"Asus Eee PC, OLPC, all in one week"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This month has clearly been an interesting one. Maybe, I should reserve it to be just this week.<\/p>\n<p>On the weekend, I went looking for a rack, and came back with an Asus Eee PC. Today, while there were about 70 OLPCs given away to lucky, <em>random<\/em> linux.conf.au 2008 attendees, I wasn&#8217;t one of them.<\/p>\n<p>However, I got one of the reserved units. Apparently, 100 units were shipped. Excellent.<\/p>\n<p>Pack comes with a power supply, laptop, manual of some sort, and Jim gave me an Australian adapter (it comes with a US based plug).<\/p>\n<p>Like I said in a previous post, I see great reason for the OLPC to rock. Now, I&#8217;ve got plenty of work ahead of me, to ensure thing do. Tasks include ensuring Fedora 9 boots off the Eee (I spoke to DaveJ about this, and the ideal plan is to make it installable by default &#8211; now its all driver hacking).<\/p>\n<p>Excited, I am, naturally. Working on Fedora again. Whee!<\/p>\n<p>The Eee has enabled me to work on the train and tram rides to get from South Yarra to Melbourne University. The OLPC, just got on my network (ifconfig -a eth0, find MAC, and voila! it works) and I&#8217;m sure to be using and hacking on it soon.<\/p>\n<p>Time to sleep, these 9am keynotes are a killer. 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