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On Thu, 2008-11-06 at 17:45 -0800, trewornan wrote: > --- On Thu, 6/11/08, kevin <kevin.lucas@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > Can you sugguest some more repros to put in the > > /etc/sources.list or > > even an alternative distro ? > > And of course how to get a new Distro on the Machine (no > > DVD drive ) > > I just bought a 901 a couple of weeks ago and replaced Xandros with ubuntu-eee > (www.ubuntu-eee.com). Download the iso and use netbootin to create a bootable USB. > > Installs like a dream, configured for the eee's peculiarities out of the box and > best of all comes with the Remix interface (created especially for sub-notebooks) > already set up. > > Remix is a very good interface, similar to the interface eees come with but more > full featured. Plus you get the full ubuntu repositories (ie basically the same as > debian) rather than the very limited repositories Asus provide. > > Can't recommend it highly enough although, having said that, I don't know how it > works on a 1000 since I haven't tried it - website says it should work fine. > > Debian is a great distro but you'd have to customise/configure it a lot after > install to get it to work with the eee as nicely as ubuntu-eee does. > > Regards, > > Trewornan > > > I tried out ubuntu-eee and eeebuntu, both good but eeebuntu is slightly better IMHO, slightly more stable with less little quirks . ubuntu-eee has some display oddities and the install image provided provided doesn't always work. The tool to create bootable usb sticks is unetbootin and can be downloaded and the gui started from the command line as is. www.eeeubuntu.org If you want further repositories for xandros the wiki at eeeuser has the complete list which can just be pasted into sources.list along with text which creates a "pin" file which ensures that synaptic/apt-get uses repositories in a hierachical order, most stable (ie official xandros) first and minmizes repetition and conflict. Simon > > -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html