On Sat Nov 22, 2008 at 12:03:33 +0000, pavithran wrote:
>    I am planning to buy a eee pc.
>    I would like to know about the compatibility of eee pc especially the 901
>    series in GNU /Linux distributions.
  I bought one on Thursday.  It arrived today.  It is currently
 running Debian GNU/Linux just fine :)
>    Though its bundled with Xandros . I would like to install debian or
>    gnewsense .
>    Do do we we get the free(gpl'ed) drivers for eee pc ?
  So far all looks good.  I'm using the RT2860-modules package to
 get the wireless working, and the camera works just fine too.
>    And how is the performance ? Can we do simple tasks like document
>    processing ( OO is slow and should obviously be slower in eee) and
>    probably code some PHP . Hope I could run apache with mysql on it :)
  I'm running apache on it, just because I can.  Performance isn't
 amazing, but it is good enough.
  I'm still finding the fat-finger problem the biggest downside.
>    Finally where do we get them in southampton ?
  Amazon?
  
http://www.amazon.co.uk/ASUS-Netbook-Linux-Preloaded-White/dp/B001C9UTKO
Steve
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