Asus EEE PC's

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I'm planning on getting the Asus EEEPC900-BK027 netbook and the plan was to put Ubuntu on there. I watched a video today, and they had the original Xandros install running in Advanced mode, it didnt look too different to Ubuntu really (although i really am a linux noob)

How come everyone changes to either xp or ubuntu? What's wrong with the Xandros install in advanced mode?
 
I can't comment on Xandros having only played with a eee netbook in some shop. I have used ubuntu a lot, and it has massive support forums and huge repositries (an online library for all kinds of codecs and programs if you will) so everything is pretty much one click installs.

Thats my guess anyway :)
 
The xandros os is fine. Theres just not really much packages available for it so you have to install stuff manually. It uses KDE i think
 
I also have a 700 since january, and also considered Ubuntu, but I stayed in xandros. Thats basicaly where you will get Asus specific software updates & drivers, and yes the 'advanced' mode is trivial to get to.

You can also open a terminal at anytime, even in 'baby' mode with control-alt-t anyway.

I don't know about your guys, but on a moving train or in the car (passenger & back ;-)) big icons are a nice invention after all :D
 
Thanks for the link, looks quite straight forward to enable the advanced mode. I've just bought a 250gb solid state portable usb drive to use for music, films etc, i'm hoping that will work well with the eee netbook :)
 
I found the advanced mode to be too restricted in software still. Wine broke my installation, and unless you want to compile everything from source on a 900Mhz processor you will be using debian repositories that break all sorts of things, even with the proper precautions.
I went through 3 installs of the default xandros (as I wanted the low boot time) until I gave up and switched to ubuntu. Would rather have used arch but at the time the multi-touch scroll didnt work in arch (not sure now).
 
I want to have a play with Xandros before i get the eee pc, but i notice you can only have a trial version once registered.

Are there any other debian distros that are similar?
 
i was looking at the 901 with Linux but i've heard people saying the new version is not very stable, although it probably wont stop me

MW
 
Whats the problem with the 901 ? I've had a 700 for months and it's been very nice. My only gripe is the price of the spare batteries that are still too high IMO.
 
I own a 901.

I tried the default Linux for a while but didnt get on with it.

I recommend you format it and install Ubuntu 8.10
 
Heh I wouldn't recommend anyone to format and replace /anything/ with 8.10. been fighting with it for weeks now and I'm /that/ far from downgrading to 8.04 -- first time ever I want to downgrade a linux install!

My suggestion is to keep what you have as long as you can bear it, and then realise that changing distro might introduced problems you wouln't have wanted in the original system anyway :D
 
My school gives every member of the 6th form an EEEPC. I think its the 701 model. Most people found out how to install the advanced mode, but easy mode was alright i supose.

Ive never used Linux before, so i can't really compare. The advanced mode's easy to get, just press Ctrl-Alt-T to open the terminal, then enter the correct lines of code. :)

So far i haven't had any problems with he laptop, except you could do with an external harddrive as i installed a few new programs (aMSN and Bluefish) and that had filled the laptop up completely. But i didn't know how to remove them so i had Xandros reinstalled on it. :)
 
You can also buy for cheap a 8GB SDHC card and use that as storage.. thats an easy way to extend it...
Some people install a complete distro on a SDHC and boot that! :D
 
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