Thanks to everyone who showed up at Waterman last night, especially Sam and our UVM hosts. It turns out the Asus EEE is pretty easy to install a basically-complete Ubuntu¹ on, if you can get some sort of bootable device (external CD, SD card, USB thumbstick) appropriately configured.
Once installed, things mostly just work, though you might want to do some tweaking² to minimize writes to the SSD, get rid of the "netbook remix" interface (though I say try it, it's nifty!), setup swap to support hibernate/suspend, &c. If you're looking for an everyday machine, the larger keyboard and screen of the 1000 model are well-worth your consideration. If you're looking for more of a "web browser while watching tv or cooking or whatnot" the smaller models like the 901 are great. Afterwards, many of us had a great discussion at VPB, and wished everyone could have come down. More info about the next meeting in the coming weeks. ¹: http://www.geteasypeasy.com/ ²: http://www.ubuntu-eee.com/wiki/index.php5?title=User_Guides Cheers… -- ...jsled http://asynchronous.org/ - a=jsled; b=asynchronous.org; echo $...@${b}
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