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Hi Julian On 1 Feb 2009, at 18:21, Julian Hall wrote: > > A friend of mine had one of the above which I saw yesterday. > > Horrible is the word that springs to mind. Slow, unwieldy, Linux > distro > customised to the point of unusable, modprobe and lspci for example > aren't even included, functionality dire - for example won't take any > version of Flash above 5 - useless for kids then as things like > YouTube > won't work, no *passwords* even for root, and as for the alleged > 'child > or adult mode' - I couldn't find anything remotely suggesting that. > > For anyone buying a netbook this would be an horrendous introduction > to > Linux, and one reason why people would run back to Windows claiming > Linux 'is too difficult'. Even my Linux knowledge (I wouldn't dream > of > calling it expertise alongside some of you :)) is frustrated by it. > > Suffice to say I'm wondering if anyone knows of alternate distros > available for it. I've had a Google around, but as it's a RISC Mipsel > based system, and not x86 I've found it a bit of a sticky wicket. > Another quick Google now shows there seems to be a Debian Mipsel > distro, > but that talks about 'bigendian' and 'littleendian' and looses me in > the > first sentence. Anyone know if there is a pre-compiled distro that > works on the Elonex (other than the grotty one it comes with)? > > I posted to the list about this model a short while ago. If you take a look at the archive you'll see the answers I got. I totally agree - a bad 'hack' job. -- Kind regards Richard Brown http://cregy.co.uk/ Embracing what God does for you is the best thing you can do for Him. Romans 12 v 1 -- 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