Mandriva officially supports eee

Valent Turkovic valent.turkovic at gmail.com
Tue Mar 25 13:28:10 UTC 2008


On Thu, Mar 20, 2008 at 3:54 PM, Rahul Sundaram
<sundaram at fedoraproject.org> wrote:
> Valent Turkovic wrote:
>  > http://justingill.com/blog/2008/03/18/mandriva-linux-spring-2008-release-on-the-asus-eee-pc/
>  >
>  > Interesting article.
>  >
>  > I know there is eeedora but that is not an official fedora spin but a
>  > project maintained by only one eee and fedora user [1]
>  >
>  > Does anybody know if there are any plans to support eeedora project
>  > more officially from Fedora? There are milions of eee sold and
>  > although xandros has made a nice UI for it the base system has lost of
>  > issues if users want to install new software (apt-get dependency hell
>  > because of conflicting xandros, debian, ubuntu and eee repos).
>
>  There has been discussions between eeedora maintainer and Fedora people.
>  Unfortunately eeedora relies on the proprietary madwifi solution for
>  wireless and distributions that claim to support eee do the same afaik.
>  The long term solution is replacing the proprietary bits with native
>  wireless drivers in the upstream Linux kernel. That can take a couple of
>  revisions and John Linville who is the upstream wireless subsystem
>  maintainer would know more details. Testing the bleeding edge bits
>  available in rawhide and providing feedback might help.
>
>  http://people.redhat.com/linville/
>
>  Rahul

Hi John,
is there anyway I can help in troubleshooting open source atheros drivers?

Cheers,
Valent.

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