On Sat, 30 May 2009 17:38:10 +0100, Timothy Murphy wrote:
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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.
I have the 701, one of the earliest smallest slowest, and have
been trying one distro after another. I did not get the good result with
F10 that others did -- some error of mine, no doubt, but I don't know
what.
Of the ones I've been trying Crunchbang (specifically Cruncheee)
and Linux Mint 7 seem the most promising. I had also planned to try F11
Live, but now I'm not sure ....
--
Beartooth Staffwright, PhD, Neo-Redneck Linux Convert
Remember I know precious little of what I am talking about.