Hi frantisek, I would be much interested in reading any report about the instllation of OpenBSD on such a laptop... If you give it a try, please let me know. You can send me off-list emails to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Go for it! Pau 2008/4/12, frantisek holop <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > hmm, on Fri, Apr 11, 2008 at 09:12:32PM -0400, Douglas A. Tutty said that > > > I wonder if there's a buffering thing going on. Under both os's, what > > happens if you time it from the start of dd to the time the light stops > > flashing and you could remove the stick. Perhaps linux's dd is > > returning while the data is still being written. > > > exactly. since i bought the asus eee i have been a linux user > again, and none should envy me for that... i have a plethora of > usb stuff with me, mp3 player, camera, external hdd, psp... > and i have truly came to hate the linux buffer system. it is all > nice and dandy that your copy operation whizzes past like a douglas > adams deadline but when you issue the umount to take your gadget > you wait sometimes more than a minute! what is the point of that > i ask? i'll take a "normal" speed copy and an instant-ish umount > any day. > > and the other day i shot myself in the foot with gkrellm because > i have a button set up for umounting the gadgets, and that button > just starts umount but it's a non blocking thing, it doesnt wait > for umount to actually return... so i "umounted", removed the > mp3 player and later that day i discovered partly overwritten > files and whatnot. madness. > > so my 0.63 thai bahts (~ 2 cents) is a massive attack song > title as well: be thankful for what you have got... > > i had my fair share of umass problems in the past, but i still think > that the openbsd usb stack is very reliable, and a lot of hardware > awfully misbehaves... > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]> uname -a > Linux amaaq 2.6.21.4-eeepc #21 Sat Oct 13 12:14:03 EDT 2007 i686 GNU/Linux > > damn you atheros for your chipset, damn you! > and damn asus to use it, damn you! > otherwise an excellent little machine. almost there to wipe the linux from > it. > > -f > > -- > women are meant to be loved, not to be understood.
