On Mar 23, 2008, at 2:46 PM, Tracy R Reed wrote:
I am betting it won't be able to do as much as the Linux version due to resource usage and lack of support for the hacked down XP install.
Sadly I'm seeing a lot of less-technical EEE users giving the Xandros distro a quick spin, and then wiping it and loading Windows XP. The worse part is that they tend to follow up a few days later with "hey XP is so much smoother on this, I'm staying with it."
On modern hardware, even scaled down stuff like the EEE, Windows XP is pretty tight and speedy (remember, it came out in 2001). There's software called nLite that makes it ridiculously easy to strip down an install well underneath the storage requirements of even the 2GB EEE.
I'm personally waiting for the 900 model to arrive for my purchase, at which point I have eeeXubuntu tagged as my distro of choice.
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