[gobolinux-devel] gobo on Eee PC?

[Jonatan Liljedahl]

Jonatan Liljedahl wrote:
> Has anyone tried installing and running gobolinux on an Asus Eee PC?
> I just bought an Eee PC 900. It's very nice, but I'll probably want to
> customize the included asus-xandros OS a lot, or install gobo. The only
> thing I'm worried about is that they already made everything work out of
> the box, hotplugging ethernet, wlan, webcam, automounting usb sticks,
> etc.. and I'm not very interested in spending hours to get it all
> working smoothly on my own.
> 
> But it would be interesting to know how they solved everything. For
> example they don't seem to use HAL and dbus for automounting usb
> storages. Also it boots *very* fast, just a few seconds. It would be
> cool to create a superslim gobolinux for Eee PC. :)

I tried booting the 014.01 LiveCD with an external USB cd-drive, it
worked fine even though the xorg conf file needs to be tweaked to get
the right 1024x600 resolution of the Eee PC 900.

I really miss the gobolinux filesystem hierarchy and don't like the
xandros/debian package management..

Now the question is how to get wifi, webcam and hotkeys to work. Perhaps
one can use the original kernel provided with the xandros-Eee OS? I
wonder if it's the kernel that makes it boot so incredible fast? Also I
think there is other Eee specific xandros packages one could use..

I'm thinking of an icewm + ROX-Filer desktop. (I'm using OroboROX on
this machine but icewm has a nice built in tasktray and system tray and
is lightweight..)

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