John Carter wrote, On 13/02/09 10:45:
Fortunately Asus packed the thing well enough that it looks as if it survived... although I haven't been able to get the wireless working yet.
Wireless was a doddle for me - are you doing something funky with encryption?
It runs Xandros linux, which seems to be a heavily kludged Debian distro that someone has tried very very hard to make look like a very easy to use windowsy type thing for very dumb users.
Easy mode is nice for what it is - but its really a task-driven interface. Power users want more - google for "full mode" and also turn on the start button.
Those who know me will understand how I felt, and get a good laugh at my expense, when I found there is no (visible) way of reaching a command line. (The answer is ctrl-alt-t)
Of course - its not something to put in front of noobs.
Alas, it doesn't come with synaptic installed. (Hey, apt-get works) It seems to have a 4Gb etx2 root partition and a 16 Gb ext3 "other" partition and no swap. Admittedly, until the moment I found apt-get, I was severely (and still am slightly) tempted to wipe the current distro and install Ubuntu Netbook Remix.
Mine was XP when it was given to me. That lasted ~24 hours. Then I put xandros on from a pen drive, which nuked XP.
Xandros lasted ~26 hours... the killer for me was that the package archives are crap - there wasn't even a deb for minicom. Anticipating lots of pain with xandros, I ended up installing full blown debian, with a special eeepc installer.... which even handled a wireless ethernet during the install. Impressive.
-- Craig Falconer
