On Saturday 22 November 2008 12:03:33 pavithran wrote: > Hi list , > 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. > 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 ? I've got ubuntu-eee installed which appears to have drivers for everything. I think I saw mention on the list of debian-eeepc which I would assume is strictly OSS.
> > 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 :) > In my experience, as long as you don't try and do too much at once, performance is fine. Even OOo 2.4 starts up in a matter of seconds and doesn't prevent me browsing and having my mail client in the background at the same time. I've got Apache and PHP running to run a wiki, too. Cheers, Mark -- Please post to: Hampshire@mailman.lug.org.uk Web Interface: https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/hampshire LUG URL: http://www.hantslug.org.uk --------------------------------------------------------------
