On Wed, 2008-06-11 at 15:53 -0700, Grant wrote: > >> I'm thinking of buying the Asus Eee for my girlfriend for her > >> birthday. Has anyone put Linux on one of those? It looks do-able:
yeah, ASUS did, but they quickly realised their mistake, and put a superiour operating system on it (Windows XP I think). Plus you get to pay more for it, so why wouldn't you buy that? <sarcasm /> > >> http://gentoo-wiki.com/Asus_Eee_PC_701 > >> > >> but I'm wondering if anyone here has tried it. not me! [snip] > > Compilation might take a while though :-) perhaps you should cross-build > > from an existing beefier machine > > Yeah how is the thing to use? How long does a firefox compile take? I think it's a celeron 900 for the 700 range. Not sure about the 900 range, but that's a chunk more expensive. I once had a similar specced desktop PC and I used firefox-bin because it was slooow. Definately try distcc. In fact, if you can make the packages completely on another machine, even better. The EPC1000 debuted this month: http://gizmodo.com/393596/asus-eee-pc-1000-to-debut-first-week-of-june > How is xfce on there? Is the screen and keyboard too small? Anybody > work on it? The keyboard is not full sized. If you need that for touch-typing, then maybe the MSI Wind is better: http://www.mobilecomputermag.co.uk/20080529536/hands-on-with-the-msi-wind-ultra-portable.html Anyway, there are plenty of reviews around: http://www.slashgear.com/asus-eee-pc-looks-even-more-tempting-295983.php -- Iain Buchanan <iaindb at netspace dot net dot au> I consider the day misspent that I am not either charged with a crime, or arrested for one. -- "Ratsy" Tourbillon -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
