Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo + Asus Eee
On Thu, 12 Jun 2008 01:19:14 -0400, Walter Dnes wrote: I'm thinking of doing something similar soon. Another reason for not building on the EEE is to save wear-and-tear on the flash drive. I suppose one should also use a filesystem without journalling to save the flash drive. Another option is to mount an external hard drive at /var/tmp/portage when building large packages. -- Neil Bothwick There's an old proverb that says just about whatever you want it to signature.asc Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo + Asus Eee
On Thursday 12 June 2008, Walter Dnes wrote: While we're at it, can Gentoo run without a swap partition or swap file? Any Linux can run just fine without swap. -- Alan McKinnon alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo + Asus Eee
On Wed, 11 Jun 2008 15:53:52 -0700, Grant wrote: Yeah how is the thing to use? How long does a firefox compile take? [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ 0]% genlop -i mozilla-firefox * www-client/mozilla-firefox Total builds: 1 Global build time: 1 hour, 24 minutes and 2 seconds. Info about currently installed ebuild: * www-client/mozilla-firefox-2.0.0.14 Install date: Sun May 18 22:22:48 2008 USE=java -mozdevelop -bindist -xforms -restrict-javascript -filepicker -iceweasel CFLAGS=-march=pentium-m -pipe -Wno-return-type -w How is xfce on there? No idea, I use KDE, Xandros uses IceWM with KDE apps. Is the screen and keyboard too small? They are small, whether they are too small depends on the size of your fingers and the age of your eyes :) The PC 900's screen is a definite improvement. I wouldn't want to work on mine all day, but that's what desktop computers are for. It's a compromise, but a pretty good one, especially as you get used to the smaller keyboard. -- Neil Bothwick Do hungry crows have ravenous appetites? signature.asc Description: PGP signature
[gentoo-user] Gentoo + Asus Eee
I'm thinking of buying the Asus Eee for my girlfriend for her birthday. Has anyone put Linux on one of those? It looks do-able: http://gentoo-wiki.com/Asus_Eee_PC_701 but I'm wondering if anyone here has tried it. - Grant -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo + Asus Eee
On Wed, Jun 11, 2008 at 1:47 PM, Grant [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm thinking of buying the Asus Eee for my girlfriend for her birthday. Has anyone put Linux on one of those? It looks do-able: http://gentoo-wiki.com/Asus_Eee_PC_701 but I'm wondering if anyone here has tried it. - Grant -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list It comes with Xandros installed, so yes a lot of people have put Linux on it including Asus :). I never installed Gentoo on an Eee, but I'm confident that you'll be able to install it -- and get everything working -- on there with less hassle than on some other laptops. -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo + Asus Eee
On Wed, 11 Jun 2008 10:47:32 -0700, Grant wrote: I'm thinking of buying the Asus Eee for my girlfriend for her birthday. Has anyone put Linux on one of those? It looks do-able: I've put Gentoo on an Eee PC 900. So far the only things not working are sound, which appears to be a common problem with non-Xandros distros, and suspend, which I haven't even looked at yet. -- Neil Bothwick New Klingon hair salon: Today is a good day to dye signature.asc Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo + Asus Eee
On Wednesday 11 June 2008, Grant wrote: I'm thinking of buying the Asus Eee for my girlfriend for her birthday. Has anyone put Linux on one of those? It looks do-able: http://gentoo-wiki.com/Asus_Eee_PC_701 but I'm wondering if anyone here has tried it. - Grant There a whole user modding community grown up around the Eee. Apparently the favoured hack is to rip the existing OS off and stick Ubuntu on, so there is no reason in the world you won't be able to get Gentoo on it. And it has no hardware inside that does not have Linux support somehow somewhere Compilation might take a while though :-) perhaps you should cross-build from an existing beefier machine -- Alan McKinnon alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo + Asus Eee
I'm thinking of buying the Asus Eee for my girlfriend for her birthday. Has anyone put Linux on one of those? It looks do-able: http://gentoo-wiki.com/Asus_Eee_PC_701 but I'm wondering if anyone here has tried it. - Grant There a whole user modding community grown up around the Eee. Apparently the favoured hack is to rip the existing OS off and stick Ubuntu on, so there is no reason in the world you won't be able to get Gentoo on it. And it has no hardware inside that does not have Linux support somehow somewhere Compilation might take a while though :-) perhaps you should cross-build from an existing beefier machine Yeah how is the thing to use? How long does a firefox compile take? How is xfce on there? Is the screen and keyboard too small? Anybody work on it? - Grant -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo + Asus Eee
On Wed, 2008-06-11 at 15:53 -0700, Grant wrote: I'm thinking of buying the Asus Eee for my girlfriend for her birthday. Has anyone put Linux on one of those? It looks do-able: yeah, ASUS did, but they quickly realised their mistake, and put a superiour operating system on it (Windows XP I think). Plus you get to pay more for it, so why wouldn't you buy that? sarcasm / http://gentoo-wiki.com/Asus_Eee_PC_701 but I'm wondering if anyone here has tried it. not me! [snip] Compilation might take a while though :-) perhaps you should cross-build from an existing beefier machine Yeah how is the thing to use? How long does a firefox compile take? I think it's a celeron 900 for the 700 range. Not sure about the 900 range, but that's a chunk more expensive. I once had a similar specced desktop PC and I used firefox-bin because it was slooow. Definately try distcc. In fact, if you can make the packages completely on another machine, even better. The EPC1000 debuted this month: http://gizmodo.com/393596/asus-eee-pc-1000-to-debut-first-week-of-june How is xfce on there? Is the screen and keyboard too small? Anybody work on it? The keyboard is not full sized. If you need that for touch-typing, then maybe the MSI Wind is better: http://www.mobilecomputermag.co.uk/20080529536/hands-on-with-the-msi-wind-ultra-portable.html Anyway, there are plenty of reviews around: http://www.slashgear.com/asus-eee-pc-looks-even-more-tempting-295983.php -- Iain Buchanan iaindb at netspace dot net dot au I consider the day misspent that I am not either charged with a crime, or arrested for one. -- Ratsy Tourbillon -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo + Asus Eee
On Wed, Jun 11, 2008 at 09:14:53PM +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote Compilation might take a while though :-) perhaps you should cross-build from an existing beefier machine I'm thinking of doing something similar soon. Another reason for not building on the EEE is to save wear-and-tear on the flash drive. I suppose one should also use a filesystem without journalling to save the flash drive. Are there any other native linux filesystems, besides ext2fs, that don't journal? While we're at it, can Gentoo run without a swap partition or swap file? -- Walter Dnes [EMAIL PROTECTED] Stop the Squeegee Kids in Pinstripe Suits Fight Canadian internet taxes http://walterdnes.wordpress.com -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
