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RE: Asus Eee

The VFM (Value For Money) Addict — Sat, 16 Aug 2008 17:36:53 GMT

Regarding Puppy there are several remastered versions especially for the Asus.

The best is Dingoplus. That is basically the latest Puppy v4 with drivers for the Asus and OpenOffice installed.

You can download it from - [url]http://puppylinux.org/downloads/puplets/dingoplus[/url]

Why not grab the iso (its a live cd naturally) and give it a try on your desktop. Its worth remembering that you could even install Dingoplus simply to a USB drive and boot the Asus from it as and when you want, even if you don't fully install it to the Asus.

Cheers,
vfm

RE: Asus Eee

SirTom909 — Sat, 16 Aug 2008 09:54:01 GMT

feck forgot about congifuring WiFi :s

hmmm gonna pick one up this afternoon i think

thanks for all the help btw :)

RE: Asus Eee

Grenville Grimace — Fri, 15 Aug 2008 19:32:58 GMT

I'll be sat in J.D. Wetherspoons browsing the forums on mine at some point tomorrow, pint of Guinness in hand. :D

I'm still using my eeepc with a default, but slightly tweaked, Xandros installation.
In all honesty, it does exactly what it's supposed to perfectly well, so I've seen little point in changing.

If I were going to change, it would be to Mandriva 2008.1, which supports all of the eee hardware without any fuss. I've also seen an Ubuntu installation on a work colleagues eee which worked quite well, though he did confess that it took a bit of setting up. Ubuntu would never be my first choice, but each to their own.

RE: Asus Eee

mob453 — Fri, 15 Aug 2008 13:01:41 GMT

[quote][b]SirTom909 (14/08/2008)[/b][hr]thanks for the response guys, appreciate it.

Gonna go with FreeBSD 7.0 and pop KDE on top of it :)

[/quote]

should work fine if you can integrate the Madwifi Hal from ticket 1192

RE: Asus Eee

mob453 — Fri, 15 Aug 2008 13:00:29 GMT

Expansys are doing the 4gb for £159.99 plus delivery black or white.

only from 1100 to 1500 today though.

RE: Asus Eee

wyliecoyoteuk — Fri, 15 Aug 2008 11:06:11 GMT

As Planeman said that is the 4Gb one, includes VAT, but not delivery.

RE: Asus Eee

PlaneMan — Fri, 15 Aug 2008 11:04:34 GMT

Misco DO have it at £164.49

RE: Asus Eee

Drezha — Fri, 15 Aug 2008 08:17:02 GMT

[quote][b]wyliecoyoteuk (14/08/2008)[/b][hr]misco are selling it @ £164
:)[/quote]

£193 including VAT.

And the on eBuyer is the 2Gb one.

You both got my hopes up:hehe:

RE: Asus Eee

gn2 — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 22:37:27 GMT

[quote][b]wyliecoyoteuk (14/08/2008)[/b][hr]misco are selling it @ £164
:)[/quote]

Fiver cheaper at Ebuyer and free delivery as well.
[url]http://www.ebuyer.com/product/141743[/url]

RE: Asus Eee

wyliecoyoteuk — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 22:01:25 GMT

misco are selling it @ £164
:)

RE: Asus Eee

SirTom909 — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 22:01:23 GMT

thanks for the response guys, appreciate it.

Gonna go with FreeBSD 7.0 and pop KDE on top of it :)

RE: Asus Eee

gn2 — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 21:21:17 GMT

[quote][b]SirTom909 (14/08/2008)[/b][hr]im not touching Ubuntu btw :)[/quote]

Why not?
Ubuntu has two good options for the 701, eeeXubuntu and Ubuntu Netbook Remix.

RE: Asus Eee

alex3410 — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 21:18:36 GMT

mine has windows XP on so anything thats around the same/similar spec as that?

RE: Asus Eee

mob453 — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 20:44:49 GMT

Mandriva 2008.1
sidux Erebos
Debian Lenny
Slax
slitaz
Elive
Puppy
Tigerpuppy with flashy Compiz Fusion effects
Linux Mint

huge choice available.

Asus Eee

SirTom909 — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 20:12:45 GMT

evening all,

quick question. im thinking of getting a 701 and was wondering if there are any other distros that will run well on the system, i was thinking SuSE however its a tad big for a 4GB HDD. any suggestions?

im not touching Ubuntu btw :)