Comments on: Asus EEE Pc — so much fun

By: Helmut

Helmut — Sun, 30 Mar 2008 18:19:58 +0000

i got me the same EEE PC in December, but now the new models come out with “normal” screen size – http://www.eeepcdemo.com/news/new-asus-eee-pc-900-video-and-prices/
so i’m starting to think may be to sell the old one :D

By: Zax

Zax — Sat, 08 Mar 2008 13:32:13 +0000

still waitng for the damned black one. suppose ~~enhanced~~ expensive version will launch faster in croatia.

By: Marko

Marko — Wed, 27 Feb 2008 16:43:11 +0000

Just got on in the other day, lovely stuff!

By: seven

seven — Sat, 23 Feb 2008 21:12:34 +0000

Beer kegs are waiting mate!

By: zytzagoo

zytzagoo — Sat, 23 Feb 2008 10:40:27 +0000

Why? Because you can upgrade the ram, and you can run more than one app no problem even with the stock setup — it’s linux after all ;)

The thing is more fun than a stick — I’ll show you when we meet :)

By: seven

seven — Sat, 23 Feb 2008 10:22:13 +0000

OMG! :) EEEPc = One laptop per geek child. :) We had huge discussion just the other day in the office about eee. Where did you get it, and WHY did you get it? With so _much_ ram, how can you even start 2 apps at the same time?

By: sloser

sloser — Fri, 22 Feb 2008 11:51:51 +0000

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/EeePC

By: zytzagoo

zytzagoo — Fri, 22 Feb 2008 11:41:17 +0000

Will do. How’s ubuntu different? What’s so special about it? A link will be more than enough :)

By: sloser

sloser — Fri, 22 Feb 2008 11:34:49 +0000

as I know you can install ubuntu on eee.

try find answers on http://groups.google.com/group/eeepc-zagreb

By: zytzagoo

zytzagoo — Fri, 22 Feb 2008 10:38:12 +0000

yo sloser! Thx for stopping by. Apt-get is über sweet once you have nice repos to choose stuff from, but this thing doesn’t by default. Synaptic was there too, however, as it’s just a (somewhat) nice GUI for the command line utilities, it suffered from the same problems: no quality packages were present.

This thingy is based on Xandros, which I later discovered is in turn a fork of the main Debian distro (or was, at some point in time). Does this mean I can just use regular debian packages? Xandros on the other hand doesn’t officially support this Asus “fork”, and the only “official” repositories are lacking (to say the least).

I’m in the middle of figuring out what the hell is “etch”, what’s the difference between dpkg and apt-get, is there a difference between i386 and i686 packages, and so on and so forth :) Fun times :)