[Chester LUG] Distros for the eeepc

[Paul Williams]

Cheers guys.  If someone brings a stick, I'll copy over distros and try them out.  If battery holds out, I can even try a few then and there.  Can I install DSL, gentoo, puppy, featherlinux or any of the others, or are they all live?  What's the options for customisation of they're live.

Looked at DSL, and it seemed a little too basic - please prove me wrong.

Looked at Gentoo, and it seemed everyone was warning me that it was hard.  I'm up for a challenge tho.

What about PCBSD?  Read about it.  Not linux?  Too big?  thoughts?

> Date: Tue, 20 May 2008 16:16:44 +0100
> From: e-mail at mcrilly.co.uk
> To: chester at mailman.lug.org.uk
> Subject: Re: [Chester LUG] Distros for the eeepc
> 
> No, i can't tell :p
> 
> On 5/20/08, Les Pritchard <les.pritchard at gmail.com> wrote:
> > I've always found Damn Small Linux to be a very nice mini-distro.  DSL-N has
> > the 2.6 kernel and apparently it works with the eeepc.  It doesn't come with
> > a load of applications installed, but you can add them to the very small
> > footprint (talking couple hundred megs).  You can boot it off a usb stick or
> > CD to give it a go first.  Installation isn't that graphical, but there
> > isn't much to it.  You could always bring it along to the next LUG and we
> > could help if you like the look of the live cd version.
> >
> > Have a look at it here:
> > http://damnsmalllinux.org/dsl-n/
> >
> > (can you tell that I'm using a few precious minutes plowing through my
> > emails whilst waiting for a meeting to start?!)
> >
> > On Tue, May 20, 2008 at 3:51 PM, Michael Crilly <e-mail at mcrilly.co.uk>
> > wrote:
> >
> >> I was thinking gentoo on a live cd. Not for newbies, but you'd learn a
> >> lot during the installation. It's small and very customizable.
> >>
> >> On 5/20/08, Paul Williams <wilp4a at hotmail.co.uk> wrote:
> >> >
> >> > Hi guys.  time for an update.
> >> >
> >> > Ubuntu on the eeepc died a death.  It took ages to get it on my sdhc
> >> card,
> >> > as my 2g model cant fit the distro on the 2gb ssd.  I couldn't be
> >> bothered
> >> > to go through all the hastle of putting it back on -not when Xandros
> >> > cent
> >> > back on in 12 minutes!
> >> >
> >> > Still, it leaves me with a distro I'm not too keen on, that isn't really
> >> > supported by asus (all the packages seem geared towards the 4g model).
> >> >
> >> > What I'm after is a distro that is small, and will leave me with plenty
> >> of
> >> > space on the ssd (supplied version of xandros is 1.6 GB installed - 2.3
> >> on
> >> > the 4 g model tho.).
> >> >
> >> > I need one that is easy to install (pref simple graphical installer),
> >> > and
> >> > updated regularly, with good support.
> >> >
> >> > I looked at Puppy linux, but there's no guarantees that it'll work.  I
> >> heard
> >> > about pupeee linux, which is puppy for the eeepc, but I couldn't seem to
> >> > find a full iso, just a bunch of files.
> >> >
> >> > Any ideas (remember, newbie here, please keep it simple!)
> >> >
> >> > Ta
> >> >
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