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On 01/02/2009 18:21, Julian Hall wrote: > Hi All, > > 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)? > > Kind regards, > > Julian > > From what I understand this device was discussed only a couple of weeks ago and it turned out that it wasn't possible to do much if anything with it. Maybe he would be better off returning it if possible and getting an EeePC or something along those lines instead? Rob -- 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