>> I'm thinking of buying the Asus Eee for my girlfriend for her >> birthday. Has anyone put Linux on one of those? It looks do-able: >> >> http://gentoo-wiki.com/Asus_Eee_PC_701 >> >> but I'm wondering if anyone here has tried it. >> >> - Grant > > There a whole user modding community grown up around the Eee. Apparently > the favoured hack is to rip the existing OS off and stick Ubuntu on, so > there is no reason in the world you won't be able to get Gentoo on it. > And it has no hardware inside that does not have Linux support somehow > somewhere > > Compilation might take a while though :-) perhaps you should cross-build > from an existing beefier machine
Yeah how is the thing to use? How long does a firefox compile take? How is xfce on there? Is the screen and keyboard too small? Anybody work on it? - Grant -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
