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On Wednesday 11 June 2008, Grant wrote: |
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> I'm thinking of buying the Asus Eee for my girlfriend for her |
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> birthday. Has anyone put Linux on one of those? It looks do-able: |
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> http://gentoo-wiki.com/Asus_Eee_PC_701 |
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> but I'm wondering if anyone here has tried it. |
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> - Grant |
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There a whole user modding community grown up around the Eee. Apparently |
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the favoured hack is to rip the existing OS off and stick Ubuntu on, so |
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there is no reason in the world you won't be able to get Gentoo on it. |
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And it has no hardware inside that does not have Linux support somehow |
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somewhere |
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Compilation might take a while though :-) perhaps you should cross-build |
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from an existing beefier machine |
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Alan McKinnon |
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alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com |
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