Asus Eee PC 901

[Oren]

Wow! I'll be very interested to hear how you get on with this.

Wired and wireless web connections work well. Streaming audio while viewing two webpages performs flawlessly.
Now, to install Puredyne32-bit on a USB stick...

[kara]

You've done a great deal on that litle netbook
Curious to hear how it will perform under linux

k

[Oren]

...Curious to hear how it will perform under linux...

Kara,
That netbook comes from Asus with their own version of a Xandros Linux operating system pre-loaded. Cool, eh? .

(with only a four gigabyte solid-state drive, Windows would be too large, and the Microsoft NTFS file system stores data inefficiently - Linux ext3 file system can pack a lot of information on that tiny drive... )

[folderol]

I heard one guy did a custom install on one of these using the 4g drive for / and the basic essentials, the 16G card for general system stuff (/usr/ /bin etc.) and a 32G usb stick for /home

His rationale was that he could just take the usb stick around to keep his files secure (doesn't matter about the system stuff) and also use it to do any file copying.

On the one I use for work I've thought of putting the whole of the system on the 16G drive, and using the 4G one for /home. This is because I run quite a lot of applications, but don't store much data on it.

Don't you just love a system that lets you organise things the way you want to

[Oren]

Don't you just love a system that lets you organise things the way you want to

That's what it's all about, Pilgrim...