[SGVLUG] Questions on the Asus eee (was Dell Inspiron Mini 9 Netbook...)

[Michael Proctor-Smith]

On Wed, Mar 25, 2009 at 10:25 AM, Mike Rubel <mrubel at galcit.caltech.edu> wrote:
>> Speaking of netbooks, I was looking at the Asus eee-pc line last night --
>> seems this has expanded greatly since it was first introduced [though
>> finding an actual reseller that sells the /linux/ version is proving
>> difficult...]  It looks like the latest offering is the "S101[H]" (the "H"
>> suffix indicates an actual hard disk rather than flash/ssd)
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> I have the eee 1000, which is solid state.   Purchased from newegg.com.
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> The installed Xandros distribution does not come with a compiler or other
> build essentials, so I added a debian repository (instructions were
> online), but the two went out of sync due to a libc incompatibility at the
> last web browser upgrade, and I have not been able to compile on it since
> then.  I'll probably have to switch to eeebuntu or fedora, but am hesitant
> because everything else (wireless, suspend, sound, webcam, etc) works so
> well right now.

I have eee 900 and am running Fedora 9. Everything works except
wireless after resuming from a suspend. But that did not work from the
factory with Xandros(update was required to fix it).

> Regarding memory, I know that it is expandable to 1GB, but I haven't tried
> expanding it.
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> -Mike
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