[Discuss] Asus EEE PC Resource

[Corey Burger]

On Nov 10, 2007 6:20 PM, Patrick <NixNoob-sneaking at sneakemail.com> wrote:
> On Sat, 10 Nov 2007 15:31:33 -0800
> "Larry Gagnon" wrote:
>
> > For those thinking of, or who have already made, an EEE purchase check out
> > this great resource/forum/wiki:
> >
> > http://www.eeeuser.com/
>
> Ah, Xandros.
>
> `Xandros acquired the Corel Linux technology, a derivative of
> Debian, and engineered it into what is today the award winning
> Xandros Desktop.'
>
> So I guess it uses .deb instead of .rpm , but is probably not
> all that compatible with stuff from the Debian repositories [well,
> maybe a little...].  Thanks, I wondered about that.
>

I love how Ubuntu gets pummeled by Debian for not "giving back" when
we have LInspire and Xandros as star examples of how not to give back.
Serves us right for saying we would.

Anyway, the issue with installing another distro on the EEE appears to
be a proprietary wireless driver, some sort of Atheros thing,
otherwise I would recommend ditching shitty Xandros and going with a
more modern distro, such as pure Debian Sid, Fedora, OpenSUSE or
Ubuntu.

Corey