Interested in Fedora on Smaller Machines?
jeff
moe at blagblagblag.org
Tue Aug 12 16:07:35 UTC 2008
Conrad Meyer wrote:
> Quoth jeff:
>> Jeremy Katz wrote:
>>> Smaller form-factor machines such as the Asus eeePC have gotten a fair
>>> bit of the tech press spotlight of late. Have you bought one with the
>>> idea of running Fedora on it? Or have you thought about doing so?
>> I've done a few different draft images for the Asus EeePC model 900 that can
> be
>> put on a USB pen drive then booted and optionally installed. I used
>> livecd-tools to build them.
>>
>> Gnome Image (600M):
>> http://www.freeeee.org/images/FREEEEE-200808080001.ext2
>>
>> Text only (199M):
>> http://www.freeeee.org/images/FREEEEE-minimal-200808102048.ext2
>>
>> Minimal GUI openbox (300M):
>> http://www.freeeee.org/images/FREEEEE-200808080001.ext2
>>
>> I've done a number of other images floating around as well, and I have a
> super
>> rad one waiting in the wings hahaha.
>>
>>
>> These are based on BLAG 90k which is based on Fedora 9. The kernel (-libre +
>> -rt) supports all hardware on the EeePC 701/900 using *only* free software.
>> This includes wifi with the ath5k driver. It is based on -libre and -rt plus
>> various other patches.
>>
>> If you are interested in this I can keep you updated when I do new images
> (like
>> every few days right now).
>>
>> -Jeff
>
> Perhaps you meant to post different links for the Openbox and GNOME images?
> They look the same to me.
Whoops, you're right, thx.
Openbox (iirc!)
http://www.freeeee.org/images/FREEEEE-minimal-gui-200808102140.ext2
-Jeff
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