EeePC - to Fedora or not?

[Aldo Foot]

On Thu, Oct 16, 2008 at 5:31 PM, Paul W. Frields <stickster at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, 2008-10-16 at 18:31 +0000, Beartooth wrote:

>> On Thu, 16 Oct 2008 12:23:32 -0400, Jim wrote:
>> > I installed FC-10 Beta  i386 or i686 on my eeePC 702,  and all hardware
>> > works great.

> Just to toot the horns of some of the people I work with (and certainly
> not my own, since I had nothing whatsoever to do with the matter), a few
> of the Fedora hackers inside Red Hat actually did quite a bit of kernel
> work upstream to get Linux kernel driver support for these units.  I
> don't know if they have 100% coverage for all the eeePCs but it's
> certainly a lot farther along than it would have been otherwise.

That's great to know. I've been thinking of getting one of those
eeePCs for myself.

~af