[MLUG] netbooks / laptops

[David Pelletier]

I'm writing this from my new EEE PC 1000HE. :)

The shipping with ncix was very very fast. I'm amazed. It actualy shipped so
fast I don't even have the time to try the different flavors of Debian eee
(or eeebuntu) right now, nor will I have the chance to do it over the week
end.

On the hardware side, the computer is very nice. About a centimeter less
wide than my old 12 inches powerbook G4. The keyboard is great, I have long
slim fingers so I don't have a problem with the small keys and already type
at close to full speed after less than an hour using it. Compared to a full
featured laptop the 1000HE is very light, though according to reviews it's
rather heavy for a netbook. The screen is bright and crisp... and MATTE! (I
hate those glossy screens).

I like it very much so far and haven't found any problem with it (contrary
to my previous buy, a Thinkpad SL300 with was utter crap, stay away frorm
the SL serie thinkpad, they are lowly ideapads in thinkpad look-alike
casings. That computer went back to Lenovo after two weeks.)



On Fri, Mar 6, 2009 at 10:51 AM, Jeremy <me at jeremychapman.info> wrote:

> David Montminy wrote:
> > hendrik at topoi.pooq.com wrote:
> >
> >> Interesting.  But the one question I have about eeebuntu is: how free is
> >> it?  The web page you refer to mentions a custom kernel.  So to get the
> >> most out of the eeepc, have they provided various binary blobs to
> >> drive the hardware?  Are we going to have trouble a few years hence, if
> >> there's no truly open source version of those binary blobs?
> >>
> >
> > That modified kernel is available at:
> > http://www.array.org/ubuntu/source.html
> > And the GIT repository is at:
> http://www.array.org/ubuntu/source-git.html
> >
> > The main difference in that kernel is making sure the drivers released
> > by ASUS are included (they were distributed as source for an older
> > kernel if I remember correctly)
> >
> >
> http://www.array.org/ubuntu/enhancements.html
>
> It is quite easy to take out the asus hardware driver, all it does is
> fan monitoring and overclock enable.
>
> As I said, go ahead with debian, this is just a very nice linux OS that
> makes everything work with no tweaking. Use it as a basis for getting
> other OSes working.
>
> BTW, both debian and ubuntu have great wiki pages about it. Also, pretty
> much everything is covered at http://wiki.eeeuser.com/ .
>
> Jeremy
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