You forgot the best reason ever to install linux and run emulators: playing Oregon Trail on an Apple ][e emulator! Hint: it's and EXCELLENT drinking game.
The easiest way to install Ubuntu on the Eee PC is a custom version called Easy Peasy: www.geteasypeasy.com (formerly known as Eeebuntu).
The latest version is based on Ubuntu 8.10, and includes a Netbook-specific Gnome interface by default, which you can easily change if you prefer plain old Gnome or KDE. The install is very quick and simple, everything works immediately, and it can be done from a USB flash drive. Compiz is disabled by default to give you some more speed and less bugs.
I just installed this on my 701, and it was the easiest OS install on a laptop I have ever experienced.
It may make us nervous that there are so many forces of evil trying to limit our right to information, but at the same time there are popular and successful trends in the opposite direction like emusic and FOSS and other happy pretty sparkles the likes of which we never would have thought possible a decade ago.
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You forgot the best reason ever to install linux and run emulators: playing Oregon Trail on an Apple ][e emulator! Hint: it's and EXCELLENT drinking game.
The eeebuntu site doesn't seem to have any documentation, aside from a daunting forum. What does it include that Easy Peasy doesn't?
The easiest way to install Ubuntu on the Eee PC is a custom version called Easy Peasy: www.geteasypeasy.com (formerly known as Eeebuntu).
The latest version is based on Ubuntu 8.10, and includes a Netbook-specific Gnome interface by default, which you can easily change if you prefer plain old Gnome or KDE. The install is very quick and simple, everything works immediately, and it can be done from a USB flash drive. Compiz is disabled by default to give you some more speed and less bugs.
I just installed this on my 701, and it was the easiest OS install on a laptop I have ever experienced.
It may make us nervous that there are so many forces of evil trying to limit our right to information, but at the same time there are popular and successful trends in the opposite direction like emusic and FOSS and other happy pretty sparkles the likes of which we never would have thought possible a decade ago.