Any tips on Asus PC eee 1000HE netbook?

[Bill Davidsen]

Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> On Sun, 2009-04-05 at 13:57 -0400, Jim wrote:
>> Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
>>> I've just acquired one of the above beasties. The thing comes with XP,
>>> so I'm interested in installing a dual-boot system with Fedora. AFAIK
>>> the 900 and 901 models are known to work, but the 1000HE is fairly new.
>>> I wondered if people who've already done this can warn me of potential
>>> pitfalls. 
>>>
>>> All advice gratefully accepted.
>>>
>>> poc
>>>
>>>   
>> As of kernel-2.27 in Fedora 10 , the Asus 1000 Sd version all the 
>> drivers are available .
>> Had no problems of installing.
> 
> Thanks to all for the info. It looks very promising and I'll be trying
> F10 in the next or two. I have a sneaking desire to go straight to F11b
> (mainly for the ext4 fs) but that may be a bridge too far at the moment.
> 
ext4 has been available since FC9... FC11 makes it the default, but you don't 
need (or IMHO *want*) to go FC11 if you are interested in using the machine as 
opposed to having a learning experience. FC11 is "good for beta" but definitely 
in a testing stage. And during install there's a prompt something like "Are you 
out of your mind?" or similar, to remind you this may not be suitable for 
production. And in my experience it isn't, although it's a fun ride if you have 
multiple machines and use one for playing.

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