[MLUG] netbooks / laptops

[Peter Silva]

A year or more ago, I got an EEE PC 704 (now called a 4G Surf)
with linux at Microbytes.  I can´t find EEEPC´s with linux any more...  the
HE is a windows only thing afaict.

So you paid the Windows Tax, and then installed over it or what?
I´m kind of hoping to get a machine without that.  the 1000HE is
just about perfect from the h/w perspective though.

On Sat, Mar 7, 2009 at 12:36 AM, David Pelletier <dpelletier at gmail.com>wrote:

> 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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