[ILUG] Asus eee 701

[Mark Kenny]

Justin MacCarthy wrote:
> Another option is crunchbang linux if you want to play with something
> different :-)
>
> 2009/3/9 Michael Armbrecht <michael.armbrecht at gmail.com>:
>   
>> 2009/3/7 Gareth Eason <bigbro at skynet.ie>:
>>     
>>> Denis Croombs wrote:
>>>       
>>>> I am trying to install Apache, PHP, mysql on this device does anyone have
>>>> any experience in doing this ?
>>>> I found this link http://www.digitaljotter.com/?p=42 but is will not accept
>>>> the "deb" http://http.us/debian.org/debian/ stable main), as explained in
>>>> this article
>>>> <http://www.downloadsquad.com/2007/11/06/eee-pc-tips-a-crash-course-in-linux
>>>> /> at Download Squad. it just complains that the repository is not available
>>>>         
>>> [snip]
>>>
>>>        Might not be much help, but I installed Ubuntu eeePC (now called Easy
>>> Peasy) which makes the Ubuntu repositories available to you, including
>>> all these things.
>>>       
>> There is another EeePC-specific Ubuntu distribution called eeebuntu
>> (http://www.eeebuntu.org/). I'm running this on an EeePC 1000 and
>> everything (special keys, web cam, wireless, bluetooth) works. The
>> distro uses the current Ubuntu repositories, just has a special kernel
>> with all the EeePC-specific drivers compiled in.
>>
>>
>>     
>>>        One thing to be aware of is that apache and mysql are rather heavy on
>>> log writing and disk I/O, something you may want to avoid on a
>>> flash-based memory system - so be careful not to unnecessarily shorten
>>> the usable lifespan of your SSD by using these packages.
>>>
>>>        Hope that helps.
>>>
>>>        Best regards,
>>>        -->Gar
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>>
>> --
>> Michael
>>
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>>  - Sir Winston Churchill
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Cruncheee is a great eee specific distro. I found it to be better 
performance wise compared to easy peasy (formerly ubuntueee) and the 
default xandros. There's a small workaround needed for Samba to work but 
other then that it's perfect (imo ofc). The openbox gui is straight 
forward enough and it's easy to manipulate.