[fedora-arm] Any thoughts on running Fedora+XFCE on an Efika Smartbook?

[Niels de Vos]

On Sun, May 15, 2011 at 4:58 PM, Dennis Gilmore <dennis at ausil.us> wrote:
> On Sunday, May 15, 2011 06:07:02 AM Niels de Vos wrote:
>> Hi list,
>>
>> I know that some of you have an Efika Smartbook
>> (http://www.genesi-usa.com/products/smartbook) and am interested in
>> your opinions on it. I'm looking to getting one myself, but only if
>> there are positive experiences with it.
>>
>> My normal usage of such a netbook would be some browsing, emailing and
>> some development (mainly with vim) while traveling. I assume that the
>> 10" display is just big enough for it (a 7" EeePC is a little too
>> small).
>>
>> Things I'd like some information on:
>> - Will XFCE run without major issues?
>> - How is the keyboard, are the keys (much) smaller than a standard
>> laptop keyboard?
>> - Is the display good readable when sitting outside, possibly in the sun?
>> - Any other pros/cons you can think of.
> It works well i use my smartbook everyday.
> http://ausil.us/smartbook/smartbook-rootfs-f13.tar.bz2
> http://ausil.us/smartbook/boot.tar.bz2
>
> its all setup to run from a sdcard.  1st partition gets the contents on the
> boot tarball and should be ext3 the second partition gets the contents of the
> rootfs.  it is the fedora xfce spin contents.   it pretty easy to transfer to
> the internal storage.
>
> overall im pretty happy with it.

Cool, many thanks! If you haven't documented the details somewhere,
I'll give it a go and will link the page on
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Architectures/ARM/Using .

Cheers,
NIels