Good Man! Christmas is near.
Check out this (I don't work for them, mind you) http://www.catchoftheday.com.au/smallfish_info.php?products_id=2571 Acer Aspire One Linux Edition ONLY $319 AFTER $59 CASHBACK! CRAP...I want to trade in my 701 and buy this...but the missus is opposed! Morgan Storey wrote: > Well I just finished installing eeebuntu on the Mrs' EEE-PC 901, it works > incredibly well; WPA2 worked out of the box, 3g connection through her Nokia > 3110, Compiz and its flashyness, and the Kernal was installed correctly. > > Thanks everyone for your advice. The only reason we went eeebuntu was the > Mrs Didn't want the cut down desktop, she wanted the full thing. She didn't > like the macosx style dock but got rid of it and runs the standard eeebuntu > gnome desktop, it is good to have all the same apps she has on her main > laptop. > > 4gb / > 16gb /home > I saw things that said it is best to avoid a swap to reduce ware on the > sd/ssd. > > Now to get me one :) > > On Sun, Dec 21, 2008 at 7:15 PM, Matthew Hannigan <m...@zip.com.au> wrote: > >> Not done yet! >> Firmly on my todo list though. >> >> On Fri, Dec 19, 2008 at 09:02:48PM +1100, elliott-brennan wrote: >>> How'd you go with it Matt? >>> >>> Matthew Hannigan wrote: >>>> On Fri, Dec 12, 2008 at 08:42:35PM +1100, elliott-brennan wrote: >>>>> I have a 701 (well, the wife has it :)) on which I >>>>> installed eeebuntu which works a treat. The screen >>>>> is small, and the keyboard is small, but it is >>>>> also very light and quick to start/shut-down. It >>>>> certainly does the job we got it for. A larger >>>>> keyboard and screen would be nice, but at the >>>>> price it's hard to complain. >>>> I also have a 701. My only criticism is the battery >>>> which is too small and discharges even when the machine >>>> is off. The latter problem cannot be fixed with different >>>> battery. Maybe I need to do some hardware hacking. >>>> >>>> I'm also going to put eeebuntu or possibly the eee fedora >>>> distro on it. (downloading eeebuntu 8.10 right now in fact) >>>> >>>> Matt >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>> -- >>> Registered GNU/Linux User 368634 >> -- >> SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ >> Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html >> > > > -- Registered GNU/Linux User 368634 -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
