Author: Andrew Rogers Date: To: Hampshire LUG Discussion List Subject: Re: [Hampshire] EEE pc compatibility
On Sat, Nov 22, 2008 at 12:03 PM, pavithran <pavithran.s@???> wrote:
> Hi list ,
> I am planning to buy a eee pc.
> I would like to know about the compatibility of eee pc especially the 901
> series in GNU /Linux distributions.
> Though its bundled with Xandros . I would like to install debian or
> gnewsense .
> Do do we we get the free(gpl'ed) drivers for eee pc ?
>
> And how is the performance ? Can we do simple tasks like document
> processing ( OO is slow and should obviously be slower in eee) and probably
> code some PHP . Hope I could run apache with mysql on it :)
>
> Finally where do we get them in southampton ?
> Regards,
> pavi
> Hi I have a 701 4G that came free with a mobile phone contract. It came
installed with Windows XP but I removed that straight away to install
linux. I firstly tried xandros but I didnt like it much so I went on to
install eee-ubuntu which I think is great.
