"mini" PC's, SSD's, and Linux
Lennart Sorensen
lsorense-1wCw9BSqJbv44Nm34jS7GywD8/FfD2ys at public.gmane.org
Mon Jul 6 16:00:43 UTC 2009
On Sat, Jul 04, 2009 at 11:40:05AM -0700, Aviss,Tyler wrote:
> I actually do already have an EEE701. Battery life is good and even the
> keyboard is ok for me, but as you mentioned the screen resolution is
> rather annoying. Since my GF is going on holidays I was thinking on
> upgrading and giving her the 701.
>
> I've been looking at the 1000 series but wasn't sure if they can come
> with SSDs (only seen 700-900 series with those) or i'd they're still
> Linux-friendly as all the ones I see are now windows preloads.
My wife has Debian unstable on her 1008HA in addition to windows 7 RC.
So far almost everything seems OK under linux. The wired network port
is detected but not working. Seems the driver isn't quite finished yet.
Wireless works fine though.
> I'd actually be happy to have a windows license for use in virtualbox,
> and load eeebuntu myself (which is awesome even on the 700) as long as
> the hardware supports it
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Len Sorensen
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