On Wednesday 14 November 2007, G T Smith wrote: > Considering that the machine comes with Xandros preinstalled and has a > rather special hardware setup; which I would assume that this copy of > Xandros is optimised for, and ASUS are committed to to support; I would > wonder why anyone would want to this, except out of a sense of adventure. > > I suspect that installing openSuSE might not be exactly wise or easy > (for a start one would probably have to build and debug a special > version of the Kernel). Installing KDE4 in its current reported status > would be seriously adventurous on this hardware... (though there is a > good argument for a special handheld and sub-micro version of SuSE). > > I would intrigued to hear the results of this experiment if anyone has > attempted it...
Well, the simplified Xandros will get a run for a week or so, but part of my excuse for buying is I hack on KDE4 (nothing major, but it fills the time) so I'm eager to see how well we cope with the form factor, especially as Plasma was designed with this sort of thing in mind. KDE3 applications are a major part of the eee, and I know they've had to hack some of the dialogs to fit the screen size, so I'd like to see what we can do in KDE4 to make things easier. So Xandros isn't a long term option for that, and I've heard the Kubuntu KDE4 packages may not be as good as the openSuse ones, so the green one will get a run, even if only a dual boot from flash. I don't think I'll try compiling KDE4 on it :-) But yeah, it's the wireless and camera that seem the biggest issue, but NDISwrapper apparently works and I can cope without a camera if needs be. John. -- Send instant messages to your online friends http://au.messenger.yahoo.com -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
