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I recently purchased an ASUS Eee PC 900A and it's great
I purchased an ASUS Eee PC 900A a few weeks ago and I found myself using it more than my main system.
A few weeks ago I purchased an ASUS EeePC 900A and I absolutely love the little netbook.
The default Xandros install was horrible. It mounts the file systems under UnionFS which blocks you from upgrading the packages as it effectively eats up all disk space if you try it.
Needless to say, Xandros got wiped off the system faster than I was initially going to remove it.
After adding a 2GB stick of Corsair RAM into the unit, I installed Archlinux and never looked back.
I have noticed that I have begun to use my Eee PC 900A a lot more than my main system or my older laptop.
I am preaching to the choir here, but I highly recommend that everyone uses Openbox on their netbook (and heck on their main machines as well :P). A window manager will always outperform a full blown desktop environment on this hardware.
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James (not verified)
Sun, 01/18/2009 - 1:12am
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Re: I recently purchased an ASUS Eee PC 900A and it's great
A Window Manager will always outperform a full desktop environment on any hardware. However after a certain point, the difference becomes negligible. 900MHz is fine for XFCE or a pared down Gnome install, and 2 gigs of RAM is enough for most anything.
Wilku (not verified)
Sun, 01/18/2009 - 5:43am
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Re: I recently purchased an ASUS Eee PC 900A and it's great
What's the wallpaper?
Moparx
Sun, 01/18/2009 - 10:17pm
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Re: I recently purchased an ASUS Eee PC 900A and it's great
It's a wallpaper with a character from "Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann".
I uploaded it for you:
Original Size Wallpaper
Eee Sized Wallpaper
Kaho (not verified)
Wed, 01/28/2009 - 10:25am
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Re: I recently purchased an ASUS Eee PC 900A and it's great
I cannot wait until I can get my hands on one of these little guys. Right now I can get one at Best Buy for $200 (I think they are discontinuing carrying them for some reason). I just have to save up the cash without my kids spending it first. :)
diablomarcus (not verified)
Mon, 08/03/2009 - 8:27pm
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Re: I recently purchased an ASUS Eee PC 900A and it's great
Pretty desktop. And yes. Openbox is awesome. I use CrunchBang because I'm a brand new Linux user and am intimidated by Arch, but I hope to try it someday.
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