[arch-general] Small laptops running archy?

[Andrei Thorp]

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 at 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 at 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
>>
>>
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