Ralf Corsepius wrote:
The OP asked about EeePC - Fedora or Ubuntu.
My answer to this question would be: If you simply want to use your netbook, you're likely better off using the OS the HW vendor supplies.
In my (fairly limited) experience, Xandros is not a good distribution. It does not seem to have a working repository system, so installing software (or upgrading) is not a simple process.
I actually started by installing eeebuntu , as I was attracted by the idea that it was specifically tailored for the EeePC. But I was slightly disappointed by this, perhaps because I am not very familiar with Ubuntu.
In any case, I decided to try Fedora-10, and found that much more to my liking. It actually worked better on my EeePC-4G, eg WiFi (to my surprise) worked out of the box, while eeebuntu seemed to require madwifi .
The one thing I learned from eeebuntu was that Unetbootin is much better than livecd-iso-to-disk , which for some reason did not work on my USB stick.
Also (very specific to the EeePC), ignore advice to go into the BIOS; just press Esc when re-booting and you will be asked which device you want to boot from.