Also, there is a custom Arch kernel for Eee somewhere on AUR, iirc. It's optimized for the system and rather nifty from what I hear. My friend tried it with great success. -AT On Tue, Apr 14, 2009 at 12:37 PM, Nicolas Bigaouette <nbigaouette@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > I have an EeePC 1000 and it works fine with Arch. It's running KDE 4.2 > without problem. You'll always need to tweak those small machines since they > are not that powerful. For example you might want a lighter DE then KDE, > like XFCE or LXDE. > Are you talking about darcs, the distributed revision control system? If so > I don't know. I am using subversion and git though. Its quite independant of > the machine... > You can avoid anybody you want, but I would suggest you stay away from Kim > Jong-il... :D > > I think any netbooks, coming with XP or Linux, will have good linux support. > Mine came with a derivation of Xandros, which I wiped and installed Arch. I > do have some rants about my Eee 1000 though. The wireless card (rt2860) has > a driver, but its quality is mediocre. I've replaced it with an intel 4965 > which is better IMO. The BIOS upgrades are not "stable" too: BIOS upgrades > changes the behaviour of the machine.For example, with the original > firmware, some keys generated different acpi events depending on the actual > state of the machine (wifi on and off for example). After an upgrade, it > went to a single event, and now its back to many events, but only for some > keys. Its a pain. > > I cant say for other types, but I'm still satisfied with my 1000 :) > > > 2009/4/14 Maurício <briqueabraque@xxxxxxxxx> > >> Hi, >> >> Do you had any experience using darcs on these >> small Eee-like notebooks? Is there someone I >> should avoid? Do you think those which come with >> Linux instaled are always sure to run any Linux >> distro? >> >> Thanks, >> Maurício >> >> >
