2008/12/17 Daniel Pittman <dan...@rimspace.net>: > Jake Anderson <ya...@vapourforge.com> writes: >> Morgan Storey wrote: >>> Are any of the hardware features lost with eeebuntu though? Like the wifi, >>> or quick start? >> >> All worked for me, Somebody released a custom kernel for it, >> (basically stripped out loads of hardware drivers) took a good 10-15 >> seconds off the boot time. > > Do you have a link to the discussion about that kernel, and which > changes were made? > > I am very curious, because the Ubuntu kernel builds very little in-core, > and uses modules for almost all hardware. It then uses udev, which > responds to the actual hardware detected and loads only the drivers that > correspond to the hardware *present*. > > The effect of that, of course, is that there is no cost[1] except for > disk space for those additional drivers.
The kernel those Eee PC specific distros use is based at http://www.array.org/ubuntu/ I don't know it it's any faster, but it certainly supports the hardware better. Sleep and resume work correctly, so I never have to shut my 901 down. -- Bring choice back to your computer. http://www.linux.org.au/linux -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
