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Which Distro For an Eee PC?
An anonymous reader writes "I've got an Eee PC 1000HD, and frankly, I can't stand XP. I know it's odd, because I actually like Vista, but XP is such a giant piece of crap on here that I struggle to use it day-by-day. Anyway, my question is this: which Linux distro should I run on it? Plain Ubuntu just doesn't have driver support. I tried Ubuntu-eee, which, to put it bluntly, does not work for me at all (slow, terrible battery life, even worse interface). I've heard that Jaunty Jackalope is going to have better netbook support, but that's all the way in April! Is there a distro out now that will free me from XP's terribleness without being terrible itself?" Getting wireless working on an Eee PC (though in my experience imperfectly) with stock Ubuntu is possible; for me it took some googling, though I've been told with great enthusiasm that it actually works "out of the box." What distros are you running on your netbook, and what problems do you find?
I hate to sound elitist here, but if you aren't capable of writing your OWN drivers for your hardware, you aren't welcome in the Linux community. Take your newb shit to M$ Winblows.
I think I speak for all of slashdot when I say this.
I use the ubuntu netbook remix. I have tried Xandros (default), eeeXubuntu (worked pretty well), and gentoo (pain in the ass to set up, but that's what gentoo is all about).
I recommend trying the netbook remix of Ubuntu. It's the one I have kept using the longest because I like the interface and it works well with the low resolution (I have an eee 701).
http://wiki.eeeuser.com/ubuntu_netbook_remix
i was scrolling and scrolling and nobody mentioned the eeepc packages they just added to debian5.0. alot of u wanks need to get off the ubuntu bullshit and use the real OS they raped to make their GUI-suckfest.