I bought one of the 701 EEEPCs when they first came out (7" screen, 4GB flash). Within a week I put ubuntu on it and it just didn't seem to fit for a netbook O/S. I ended up going back to the stock O/S (slightly tweaked Xandros) and made a few modifications to it, upgrading OpenOffice, removing the UnionFS, etc. It is soooo much faster to start and do the basic netbook stuff like check emails, and check wikipedia when my brain fails me (often). IMHO, Asus did a great job with this distro, and I've found most apps I want that aren't on there are in the Xandros apt repo. These packages work flawlessly, and even Debian sarge packages are generally OK since Xandros is Debian-based.
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C'mon guys, I opened the comments to this story just to read the hilarious "In Soviet Russia..." joke and found none!!!
Surely defanging a cobra and sewing its mouth closed so your baby can play with it is stranger.... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4OR--0zJoIs
That's the sound of 20 Million Australians crying in unison.
I bought one of the 701 EEEPCs when they first came out (7" screen, 4GB flash). Within a week I put ubuntu on it and it just didn't seem to fit for a netbook O/S. I ended up going back to the stock O/S (slightly tweaked Xandros) and made a few modifications to it, upgrading OpenOffice, removing the UnionFS, etc. It is soooo much faster to start and do the basic netbook stuff like check emails, and check wikipedia when my brain fails me (often). IMHO, Asus did a great job with this distro, and I've found most apps I want that aren't on there are in the Xandros apt repo. These packages work flawlessly, and even Debian sarge packages are generally OK since Xandros is Debian-based.