Larry Doolittle wrote: > On Fri, Jan 02, 2009 at 09:40:08PM -0700, Eric Brombaugh wrote: >> I've been glancing over some of the inexpensive Linux-based >> netbooks lately - a tad underpowered, but potentially useful and cheap >> enough to take a flyer on. I'm curious how useful a 1024x800 screen >> would be for gEDA/PCB. > > 1024x800? Where? They're all widescreen now. The lightweight, > inexpensive ones are 1024*600 or so. The larger, heavier, cheap and > modern notebooks get up all the way to 1280x800. > > The lack of height would hurt me, at least. I now use a 1024x768 > Thinkpad X40 (which I have promoted here before: US$400 on eBay). > I couldn't stand going any smaller in screen size.
Dredging up this old thread again... I found an ASUS EEE PC 900A at a local big-box last week for $200. After a few false starts with the pre-installed Xandros distro, I loaded up Ubuntu eee which seems to be working well. gEDA/PCB were easily added with apt-get (although the Ubuntu repositories are still on 20080202 unfortunately) and gschem + PCB work fine. Surprisingly usable, even on the small screen. I do wonder if there is any way to get a newer package though. Fedora 9's yum repository is pretty much up-to-date. I guess compiling from source is the only way for now. Overall not bad though. It would work in a pinch. Eric _______________________________________________ geda-user mailing list [email protected] http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user
