[Techtalk] Asus EeePC

[Roberta Gallini]

Hi Billie,

Does anyone have any experience with these things?
>

I am using it right now and it works like a charm.

The distro used Xandros has been customized to be very fast to use.



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> What I'm wondering about is different software. I looked at the built in
> "Add Remove Software" stuff and didn't see a lot of choice available.
>

That's true but  you can use Synaptic, since the distro is Debian

I'm not sure what else I might want, but one never knows. I am NOT much
> use at CLI stuff and so far I haven't seen an option for a terminal
> screen anywhere anyway.
>

To open a terminal you must press

ctrl-alt-t

to start synaptic you can use this command

sudo /usr/sbin/synaptic

You'll be presented with a few repository to choose from, but you can add a
few nice things.

i don't know if all "deb" packages are working but you can find a lot of
forum to put on the right direction.

People had also installed a smaller version of Ubuntu (eeeubuntu) , but I
think that Xandros works just fine.

Bye
Roberta