The Asus EEE PC will be the topic for discussion at tonight's GAMUG Support Pro SIG meeting (see "this weeks events" listing for details, also the GAMUG.org web site).
--Don Ellis On Fri, Aug 22, 2008 at 8:43 PM, Robert Citek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote: > > Got one. :) > > On Wed, Aug 13, 2008 at 11:24 AM, Robert Citek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > On Wed, Aug 13, 2008 at 10:22 AM, Cat Lover <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > >> However - "This item is available online, but is not available in > stores." > > > > That's what it says on-line. But a direct e-mail campaign says it is > > available in select stores. The Target on Hampton is listed, so I > > figured I'd try that out. > > Dropped by Target on Hampton this evening and picked up a black one. > Nice little thing. They have about five left: only black and whites, > though. > > >> What version of Linux does it come with? Ubuntu? > > > > Xandros. But apparently you can install Ubuntu on it. > > The way they did Xandros is pretty nice. > > > I'm most curious about two things: > > > > 1) can it boot from a USB drive? > > 2) can the USB port power an external laptop drive? > > Yes, to both of those. It will boot up my regular Ubuntu desktop from > the 160 GB external USB drive just fine. Everything works but > wireless, which is probably just a configuration thing. > > Hook up an external monitor and USB keyboard/mouse and it's a desktop. > > Regards, > - Robert > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Central West End Linux Users Group (via Google Groups) Main page: http://www.cwelug.org To post: [email protected] To subscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] More options: http://groups.google.com/group/cwelug -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
