So, after several months of selling some hardware
and gadgets to purchase myself an eeePC and during
which time my wife kept taking the money to feed
the kids...sheesh, priorities, PUUULEASE! I found
the price had dropped from $AU500 to $AU275, and
my wife's birthday is in two weeks...so I bought
one for her <cough>.
The 4G 701.
I found the default distro cute and very usable,
never mind that it boots in about 30 seconds and
shuts down in about 10.
I downloaded Mandriva One Spring edition:
http://www.mandriva.com/
and loaded that on a 4G flash drive, then
downloaded eeebuntu NBR (netbook remix):
http://www.eeebuntu.org/
and did the same.
Quick plug. Check out:
http://unetbootin.sourceforge.net/
Great way to make a bootable flash drive with
various OSs.
So, I ran both from the flash drives and the
default from the main drive for the last three days.
Mandriva required a command line action to get the
video to work (after a kernel update first), where
as eeebuntu required some weird fiddling with the
sound settings and some command line action using
built-in scripts - nothing too hard when you found
out about it (maybe I should write this up in
detail?)
My favourite?
The eeebuntu netbook remix. It's takes twice as
long to boot, the same length, roughly, to
shut-down, but it's very pretty and very
configurable. Plus it allows you to install some
apps that I find preferable.
Seriously, if you have one of these machines, try
eeebuntu. Mandriva is also very nice looking and
Metisse works really well. Metisse is not as
'out-there' as Compiz, but it has some tre' cool
effects.
Spoilt for choice on a little machine - you
betcha! Hmmmmmm, I hope she likes eeebuntu
:^/
Regards,
Patrick
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