[plug] Eee

[Chris Hoy Poy]

Got my EEE a few weeks back (got in on backorder when I heard Myers had the contract - we'd been trying to get hold of a heap for the GoPC ( www.gopc.net ) project. Myers sold out pretty fast - theres a whirlpool/whingepool posting about how hard the thing has been to get hold of. 

Asus have already announced they will be releasing a variant with Windows unfortunately :(

http://eeepc.asus.com/global/news10192007.htm

which is a pity, the thing rocks out of the boat. I had my Nokia E65 running as a modem with a few hacks to the Xandros dialup scripts (just strip out the init strings and tell the dialer to atd instead of atdt). (Couldnt find a way to do that through the Xandros GUI's unfortunately). 

Also, the onboard video will run a 1680x1050 LCD no worries, and all the USB fluff I've tried works out of the box (like external keyboards cos the mini keyboard can mush your fingers when you need to type fast). 

Got a bluetooth dongle with it currently - been eyeing off the bluetooth mods from eeeuser.org - and apparently busting open the back to put memory in doesnt void the warranty. 
http://www.reghardware.co.uk/2007/12/10/asus_warranty_statement/

but it runs the NX webclient out of the box and I had no dependancy issues putting the NXclient onto the base Xandros install - although it installs in a rather lame manner (it has a default "user" called "user" even though the "installer" on first boot asks you for your name - wouldnt have been that hard to add extra users, but cant complain too much. 

there will be variants out with onboard 3G and 3.5G cards soon - although I also saw drivers and install instructions on the Asus website for putting some kind of Asus 3.5G into the thing, but havent researched whether the card is available yet. Some of the retail EEE's dont have the secondary mini-PCI apparently - mine does though. 

//chris



----- Original Message -----
From: "Paul Antoine" <pma-la at milleng.com.au>
To: plug at plug.org.au
Sent: Tuesday, December 18, 2007 4:34:59 PM (GMT+0800) Australia/Perth
Subject: Re: [plug] Eee

Indeed, and what a great product Tivo is!  Not that most consumers 
realise it's running Linux... however it did lead to great hackability :-)

We had 2 when living in the US and it beats the *hell* out of the Foxtel 
IQ piece of foetid dingo's kidneys. A quick hard drive upgrade and we 
had 120hrs of storage and an ethernet card meant remote programming. Not 
bad in 2001 :-)

P.

Richard Meyer wrote:
> Not that the Eee is the first LLinux product, there's also
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TiVo (Tivo).
> 
> On Tue, 2007-12-18 at 14:29 +0900, Paul Antoine wrote:
>> When people talk of the so-called lack of penetration of desktop Linux 
>> I'd like them to remember just how far Linux and FOSS have come.
>>
>> For those who don't remember the switch from vendor-specific proprietary 
>> OS's to Unix I would point out that it took some 14+ years after Unix 
>> was written for it to begin to be considered a "serious" server 
>> platform.  Software changes fast, but IT departments do not ;-)
>>
>> I remember wanting to use Linux as the basis for IT products back in 
>> 1994/1995 at which point people thought I was crazy... now a consumer PC 
>> with broad distribution and strong marketing relies on Linux!
>>
>> 2008 will be a great year yet for FOSS I suspect,
>> P.
>>
>>
>> Garry wrote:
>>>
>>> Saw the Linux powered Eee in today's West Australian..
>>>
>>> In a Myer advertisement.. $499..
>>>
>>> 8^)
>>>
>>> Garry
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