[Klug-general] Is the worm slowly turning?

[nic dan]

Colin

I already tried to interest you in Puppy for the EEEPC
I forgot to show you this

Compizfusion a la puppy, known as wNOP, here's a screenshot

http://www.puppylinux.org/home/screenshots/wnop-eeepc

low power eh, guys?

Aitch

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> Date: Fri, 6 Jun 2008 22:40:02 +0100
> From: binarysignal at gmail.com
> To: kent at mailman.lug.org.uk
> Subject: Re: [Klug-general] Is the worm slowly turning?
> 
> On Fri, Jun 6, 2008 at 11:07 AM, Martin A. Brooks <martin at antibodymx.net> wrote:
> > Karl Lattimer wrote:
> >>
> >> However, I'd say this, for highly customised OS's on specialist hardware
> >> like eeepc its just right.
> >
> > The EEE isn't specialist hardware, it's very generic x86 kit.
> 
> I would agree with Karl L. I think it is specialist hardware.  A 7
> inch screen and a SSD is not really generic when you look at all the
> other trillions of 14inch notebooks with 120Gb drives on the market.
> For a while the eeePC was unique and special in the market place.  Yes
> other companies like Sony made small laptops, but they were still more
> generic and mainstream than the eeePC.
> 
> I think the term Netbook, as a lot of these new devices are being
> called is very correct. Most of the shortcuts on the simple eeePC GUI
> screen are for web applications which don't take much CPU, RAM or HD
> space to use.
> 
> >> They've upped the
> >> specs to run XP on eeepc, and even then its pre-configured to be retarded
> >> by default. So what hope would they have with vista+.
> >>
> >
> > I run XP and Linux on my EEE, XP works remarkably well.
> 
> I have used XP on a eeePC, and while it does run, I don't think it is
> as usable as the simple OS that comes as standard on the eeePC.  We
> have 32 eeePc's at school.  We thought about putting XP on them, but
> decided that the simple GUI was better, easier and quicker for the
> students to use in class.
> 
> And do you know they love it :-)  A few have asked me questions on
> what it runs, so I am now just waiting for some Ubuntu CD's to turn up
> so I can get (the interested ones) running Linux on their home PC's.
> Even just on a Live CD first.
> 
> Colin
> 
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