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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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Yeah how is the thing to use? How long does a firefox compile take? |
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How is xfce on there? Is the screen and keyboard too small? Anybody |
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work on it? |
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- Grant |
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