I picked myself up a new laptop on my Birthday. I new ASUS eeePc in black. It is turning out to be a pretty laptop. It’s only marginally larger than my old Newton PDA so it’s small enough to carry anyware, it was really inexpensive (I could buy 3 of the eeePc’s for what a single MacBook costs), and best of all it doesn’t run Microsoft Windows so there aren’t the added incremental costs and headaches that Microsoft windows requires.
So far I have managed to replace the base Xandros OS that it shipped with and replace it with Kubuntu. It makes a decent MythTV frontend for SD TV content. Although KDE4 doesn’t run very well on it due to the new KDE kicker replacement taking up a significant amount of the eeePC’s small screen.
It also work very well connecting to the internet through my Cingular 8525 phone that is running WMWifiRouter.
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February 18th, 2008 at 11:13 am
Do you prefer the Xandros or Kubuntu now that you have used both? I have the Eee in white but had to rma due to not powering up all the time. Asus is sending a replacement, but I to was thinking of replacing Xandros with either Kubuntu or Knoppix on it. Thanks in advance.
February 18th, 2008 at 5:27 pm
It’s kind of a toss-up. I found that Xandros did a great job building a kde environment that works well with the EeePC’s small screen.
However, I have been sticking with my Kubuntu because with the base Xandros install I found myself constantly searching for repositories/packages for various things that are in the Kubuntu/Ubuntu repositories.