On Sat, 30 May 2009 17:38:10 +0100, Timothy Murphy wrote: [....] > In my (fairly limited) experience, Xandros is not a good distribution. > It does not seem to have a working repository system, so installing > software (or upgrading) is not a simple process. > > I actually started by installing eeebuntu , as I was attracted by the > idea that it was specifically tailored for the EeePC. > But I was slightly disappointed by this, perhaps because I am not very > familiar with Ubuntu. > > In any case, I decided to try Fedora-10, and found that much more to my > liking. It actually worked better on my EeePC-4G, eg WiFi (to my > surprise) worked out of the box, while eeebuntu seemed to require > madwifi . > > The one thing I learned from eeebuntu was that Unetbootin is much better > than livecd-iso-to-disk , which for some reason did not work on my USB > stick. > > Also (very specific to the EeePC), > ignore advice to go into the BIOS; > just press Esc when re-booting > and you will be asked which device you want to boot from. I have the 701, one of the earliest smallest slowest, and have been trying one distro after another. I did not get the good result with F10 that others did -- some error of mine, no doubt, but I don't know what. Of the ones I've been trying Crunchbang (specifically Cruncheee) and Linux Mint 7 seem the most promising. I had also planned to try F11 Live, but now I'm not sure .... -- Beartooth Staffwright, PhD, Neo-Redneck Linux Convert Remember I know precious little of what I am talking about. -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
