Comments on: Fedora + Eee PC = Eeedora

By: Johnny Rosenberg

Johnny Rosenberg — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 20:15:54 +0000

#13: Yeah, right… Do you have any more stupid suggestions?
I used Windows (XP Pro, 2000 Pro, 98) for years (not on the Eee though) and I’m happy to say: Never ever again!

Currently Ubuntuu Eee is installed on my Eee, but it’s too slow for my needs, so I am looking for something faster, but not too simple. Suggestions?

Pupeee was too simple but incredibly fast. Old software by default and I never understood how to get a wired connection to the Internet.

Xandros (Easy Mode) was reasonable fast, but its standard repository contained the very outdated 2.0.4 version of OpenOffice.org. The most annoying thing was, however, the use of drive letters! Why why whyyyyyy?

Xandros (Advanced Mode) is a KDE version. Unfortunately it use drive letters too, which I, as I said, find extremely annoying.

Ubuntu Eee is great, but way too slow for me. I like it for compatibility with my other computers.

Eeedora is one of those I didn’t try yet. How is it? As fast as Xandros but more advanced?

Is there one distribution for me out there? It should probably be based on Debian, I prefer Gnome over KDE and XFCE, but there are still some stuff out there I didn’t try so far. All hardware of the Eee should work (Eee 900, Swedish) etcetera.

By: Joe S.

Joe S. — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 21:36:11 +0000

I found eeedora again at http://eeedora.complexvalues.com/

By: SOG knives

SOG knives — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 20:47:46 +0000

SOG knives

Interesting ideas… I wonder how the Hollywood media would portray this?

By: pligg.com

pligg.com — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 23:57:50 +0000

Red Hat Magazine | Fedora + Eee PC = Eeedora

I am a fan of affordable technology. I like relatively cheap gadgets, and I like open source. When I heard about Asus’ Eee PC, I took it with a certain grain of salt. I thought that maybe it was just another company trying to take a piece of the pie …

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Que blog más aburrido « b e o r — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 15:41:54 +0000

[...] She me regaló por mi cumple un Eee Pc, ¡¡¡guau!!! es la versión windows, porque en España es la única que se vende, pero ya he lo he probado con Eeedora, la versión de Fedora para el Eee Pc. Muy chulo, muy pequeño (pantalla de 7”), mucho tiempo de batería, a ver que tal se porta… [...]

By: TiWhiTe

TiWhiTe — Tue, 27 May 2008 16:42:55 +0000

I’m running eeedora off my usb flash drive right now and contemplating whether to take the plunge and install it over the default xandros system. Whats currently putting me off is the wireles seems somewhat dodgy and firefox takes forever to load up first time but this could all be because i’m running it off the flashdrive. Does anyone have advice?

By: Steve Steingass

Steve Steingass — Wed, 21 May 2008 19:38:47 +0000

The link to the Eeedora.iso is dead. Is there another site that has a working version of Eeedora? Let me know please, thanks.

Steve S.

By: Sarah EeePC ME

Sarah EeePC ME — Mon, 12 May 2008 03:54:02 +0000

Hey Guys,
I’m three weeks into owning my 2G Surf EeePC with the unlocked KDE. I’ve used my little computer on a film set and with my cellphone tethered for 3G internet. I’m used to Fedora on tower computers, so this is a minor adventure. I tried installing DEV tools and am now about out of space. =( Is it possible to install Red Hat Fedora instead, and using my tower computer to build/compile apps and just xfer them to the EeePC to save the poor little thing from getting heat stroke from doing the compiling itself? Can I compile on a much fast system with different hardware and still run the app(s) on the EeePC?

thanks!
Sarah

By: Luis Felipe

Luis Felipe — Sat, 26 Apr 2008 21:36:25 +0000

I’m using Fedora 9 Preview on my Eee 4G.

I’ve installed asus_acpi module and acpid is able to grab hotkey events and execute defined scripts in /etc/acpi/actions.

Everythings runs just fine, except from the fact the scripts in /etc/acpi/actions cannot open any graphical program, such as xrandr (to change lcd x vga etc.)

I get this on /var/log/Xorg.0.log:

Code:

AUDIT: Sat Apr 26 19:31:46 2008: 1912 Xorg: client 30 rejected from local host ( uid=0 gid=0 pid=4563 )

I must say I do have “export DISPLAY=:0″ at the beginning of the script I’m intending to run.

The only until now I could make it work was to type, as regular user:

Code:

xhost +local:root

After that the script runs just fine and I don’t get the errors in Xorg.0.log.

I can’t see what I’m doing wrong… If someone could help, I’d appreciate a lot!

Thanks,

By: EEE PC interface and software, tweaks and hacks, installing Linux eeeDora or eeeXubuntu, EEEPC tips and tricks | Asus EEEPC (E3PC) News & Info

Thu, 24 Apr 2008 21:41:35 +0000

[...] Reading Thoughtfix’ post titled EEE PC and Xandros: No Thank You on his own blog UltraMobilegeek, you can easily spot the double-faced approach of Asus’ EEEPC subnotebook. Actually, there seem to be two distinct and antithetical approaches to the EEE PC interface and software: an out-of-the-box plain, self-contained everyday use, and a geek-oriented nerdish and hack-prone (ab)use of the machine. The first is typically preferred by the majority of users, who see the EEEPC’s Xandros O.S. with AsusLauncher graphical interface (probably inherited from PDAs, see image on the left) and preinstalled software as sufficient for their needs, and probably appreciate the fast response and stable behaviour of the software as a whole. This large part of EEE PC’s users, will eventually search for, discover and make use of some ’smart tricks’ in order to hack into the system and expand it in some way, for example using some Terminal commands to unlock the full Xandros Desktop (thus bypassing the AsusLauncher interface) or tweaking the EEE PC icon interface and adding new repositories to download additional applications. At the antipode are those smart users who prefer the hacking approach, usually starting with a radical change in the EEE PC’s system, for example installing another Linux distribution like eeeXubuntu or eeeDora, and in some cases installing an optimized version of Windows XP whose code has been ‘cleaned’ from the unnecessary stuff wih the use of great utilities like nLite, GameXP or XPLite. So, as you can see, the Asus EEE PC manages to keep both unexperienced computer user AND smart PC users like techies, geeks, nerds or even hackers (-wannabees) and Linux gurus satisfied, offering them the best of both worlds according to everyone’s computing needs. EEE PC competitors will have to address this aspect too, of course, in order to reach the same level of popularity and success. Are they going to have what it takes to succeed against such a great machine in the same price tag? [...]