I once bought a asus eeepc after weeks of surfing on the internet because it had excelent support by one little linux distro: moblin.
For 11 months, I was extremely content. The eeepc booted fast, browsing, e-mail chat and twitter integration where good. Then suddenly, moblin merged into MeeGo. When MeeGo came with the first release, I was discontent with the "rape" that happened to the interface. Moblin was a OS I could easily take to business meetings. With MeeGo people would ask me if I brought a childrens computer. I know this is all about style and feel, but in my opinion; they threw away style when they created the first MeeGo netbook release. Now the MeeGo project is under heavy fire. It seems as if there will be no more netbook releases... I was disappointed and it made me decide to try android-x86. This OS is far from perfect, it locks my screen and to many touch screen functions made it in to the netbook edition giving you a very uneasy feel when on a eeepc. I just installed the Ubuntu netbook remix. I hate it. It is big, starts slow and getting the firefox browser to show up takes ages. If I could rub a lamp and make a simple wish? It would be to merge the MeeGo netbook edition back in to Moblin and have a Moblin community that focuses on (eeepc) netbooks of the atom generation. How many eeepc's are out there? Will the Win7 versions survive the painfull sequence of update after update? Wouldn't it be amazing if there was an active project simply for atom netbooks that would support hardware that entered the world 2 years ago for a very long time? Without watching you netbook get slower month by month? I am sad. It makes me nostalgic. eeepc's deserve attention. And it would be perfect if there would be a community that would keep it alive. A quote from os2world.com: "OS2 World attracts an audience of more than 35.000 unique visitors per month. Having grown from humble origins into a powerful resource for OS/2 & eCS, it is now one of the major OS/2 & eCS sites available. " Who ever said that old hardware is dead? It is just not commercially attractive to all these profit driven hardware vendors...
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