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

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

Maurí­cio wrote:

Hi,

Do you had any experience using darcs on these small Eee-like notebooks? Is there someone I should avoid?

I've had complete success installing arch on Acer Aspire One and MSI Wind. The latter needed rtl8187se for the wireless card which is readily available in AUR. That was the only piece of hardware not supported by the stock kernel, but that was a few months ago, before 2.6.29-ARCH hit the road.

Do you think those which come with Linux instaled are always sure to run any Linux distro?

Fear not, even if it's only sold with windows, it surely runs linux. But don't buy a windows netbook if you plan to install linux; save your extra money from microsoft and improve linux statistics. -- ##### # ##### ####### ##### # ##### "I find your lack of faith disturbing."