Alright, ive tried the following out on the Eee: XP, Xandros, Ubuntu, Xubuntu, and Mandriva 2008. After trying them all ive stuck with XP for various reasons. Any other Linux distro other than the standard one has some major problems. Mind you, they are problems that can be worked out but either way you lose the ability to quickboot and at time even the ability to shutdown without a hard shutdown.
Xp though, with a small amount of tinkering to make it stay 800x480 without the irritating asus utility process running as well as the sound driver and other bugs, runs everything quite nice. XP also has a, get this, 12 second boot with the proper startup items. Although, i dont recommend a standard XP install, using nlite to tone the size and unnecessary ram usage down is a great solution.
Youve gotta hand it to microsoft. Their most popular product has worked like a charm in more cases than one.
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Alright, ive tried the following out on the Eee: XP, Xandros, Ubuntu, Xubuntu, and Mandriva 2008. After trying them all ive stuck with XP for various reasons. Any other Linux distro other than the standard one has some major problems. Mind you, they are problems that can be worked out but either way you lose the ability to quickboot and at time even the ability to shutdown without a hard shutdown.
Xp though, with a small amount of tinkering to make it stay 800x480 without the irritating asus utility process running as well as the sound driver and other bugs, runs everything quite nice. XP also has a, get this, 12 second boot with the proper startup items. Although, i dont recommend a standard XP install, using nlite to tone the size and unnecessary ram usage down is a great solution.
Youve gotta hand it to microsoft. Their most popular product has worked like a charm in more cases than one.