Also, there is a custom Arch kernel for Eee somewhere on AUR, iirc. It's optimized for the system and rather nifty from what I hear. My friend tried it with great success. -AT On Tue, Apr 14, 2009 at 12:37 PM, Nicolas Bigaouette <nbigaouette@gmail.com> wrote:
I have an EeePC 1000 and it works fine with Arch. It's running KDE 4.2 without problem. You'll always need to tweak those small machines since they are not that powerful. For example you might want a lighter DE then KDE, like XFCE or LXDE. Are you talking about darcs, the distributed revision control system? If so I don't know. I am using subversion and git though. Its quite independant of the machine... You can avoid anybody you want, but I would suggest you stay away from Kim Jong-il... :D
I think any netbooks, coming with XP or Linux, will have good linux support. Mine came with a derivation of Xandros, which I wiped and installed Arch. I do have some rants about my Eee 1000 though. The wireless card (rt2860) has a driver, but its quality is mediocre. I've replaced it with an intel 4965 which is better IMO. The BIOS upgrades are not "stable" too: BIOS upgrades changes the behaviour of the machine.For example, with the original firmware, some keys generated different acpi events depending on the actual state of the machine (wifi on and off for example). After an upgrade, it went to a single event, and now its back to many events, but only for some keys. Its a pain.
I cant say for other types, but I'm still satisfied with my 1000 :)
2009/4/14 Maurício <briqueabraque@yahoo.com>
Hi,
Do you had any experience using darcs on these small Eee-like notebooks? Is there someone I should avoid? Do you think those which come with Linux instaled are always sure to run any Linux distro?
Thanks, Maurício