Lemme ask this...in general, how hard is it to treat the eee as an 'ordinary' Linux machine? I mean, it looks like Ctrl-Alt-T gets me a terminal where I can sudo, and from there I can do apt-get with the only complications being that becaues of size limitations, some things will be missing or configured differently? --gvc
Graham Toal wrote: > I tried and failed, but I didn't put a lot of effort into it as I only > had a 20Gb machine as a loaner for an hour at that time. (I've since > got one of my own but it's the smaller 4Gb version and I'm not > installing anything on it due to lack of space - I recommend the 20Gb > version (and make sure you get the built-in camera if you have any > relatives abroad :-) )) > > You could also get the EEEPC emulator that's floating around and try > it on that first? > > Although having said that - just get one anyway. Even without a > scrabble program, they're cool machines. What do you spend your life > working for, if you can't afford a $200 toy once in a while? > > (but shop carefully, the prices are all over the map!) > > > G > > On Fri, Jun 12, 2009 at 6:33 AM, G. Vincent Castellano<[email protected]> > wrote: >> Has anyone managed to install Q on a Linux Netbook, like the Asus eee? I've >> been looking for a reason to get one of these, and this might just do it. >> --gvc > > > ------------------------------------ > > Yahoo! Groups Links > > >
