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Reality Artist wrote:

> none wrote:
>> They do make the larger one with Linux, but I haven't seen one in Oz. I
>> haven't looked for information for a couple of months now, but when I
>> was asking around to see if anyone had replaced the winxp version with
>> linux I couldn't get a straight answer. Lots of maybes and ifs, and go
>> here and there (neither here nor there really knew either). Maybe
>> someone has done it since.
>> jules
>> 
>> spodosaurus wrote:
>>> Andrew Rich wrote:
>>>> I have had an ASUS eeepc the linux version with the smaller screen.
>>>>
>>>> I have since sold it.
>>>>
>>>> I see there is an eeepc out with a larger screen, will linux run on it
>>>> ?
>>>>
>>>> Andrew
>>>>
>>> There are three screen sizes, and multiple versions of each screen size.
>>> Perhaps a quick search on google would have been useful, because Asus is
>>> selling EeePCs with linux in all three of their screen sizes, and
>>> there's also Ubuntu-eee that's been remade to work with these netbooks.
>>>
>>> Ari
>>>
> 
> I run ubuntu 9.04 netbook remix on my asus 701 4g and it works well.
> 
> You have to select force lower graphics from gconf and it runs a little
> slow to get things going, but unless you are on psuedoephadrine that
> should be ok.  some things do not work properly, like the wireless
> function key and maybe sound and webcam, but i never use them anyway.
> 
> if you do want more functionality, i would definately recommend
> easypeasy 1.5 (www.geteasypeasy.com).  it works perfectly 'out of the
> box' and runs a modded ubuntu 9.04 especially for eeepcs.
> 
> the only reason i dont use it is because it thinks the scroll bar on my
> wireless mouse is for changing multiple desktops (if anyone knows how to
> fix this i'd love to hear from you)
> 
> Rohan

I found easy peasy 1.5 buggy/difficult so I've stayed with version 1.1 for
the moment.  I have also looked at ubuntu 9.10 netbook remix beta and I was
most impressed.  It handled things like the function keys and the wifi LED 
perfectly out of the box.  BTW, on a eeepc one can use the eee-control
application setup to handle function keys and the like.  See 
http://greg.geekmind.org/eee-control/ but read the documentation well and
take note of the various issues raised...

I will most likely move over to UNR 9.10 when it is officially released at
the end of October.  An importent issue to note regarding upgrading to 9.10
is that GRUB 2 boot loader is used and this caused problems when I wanted
to revert to a disk image of an earlier release which used 1.x version.  I
read somewhere that if one updates from UNR 9.04 to 9.10 via the update
manager then the 1.x GRUB boot loader is NOT overwritten.

        Rob.