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Article #857Re: eeepc
From: none
Date: Sun, 01 Mar 2009 06:51
Date: Sun, 01 Mar 2009 06:51
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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 have EEEBUNTU Standard on my EEEPC 900 with an 8 inch (if I understand correctly) screen. works fine - if I don't mess around with the wrong parameters. Wouldn't go back to XP or Windows in general for anything. I miss MS Works in that I could do a lot of things like my kids report cards follow-up. Steve
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