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Matt, where do you see the OS lacking? What kind of stuff are you doing on the machine?
Once I got KDE up and running (which runs so well, btw! I was shocked) I was very happy.
I still haven't spent alot of time on my EEE (4gb), so I can't provide a very extensive review. I did loan the machine to a couple who did a 3 week trip to california with it and they were super happy with the machine. From my perspective, it doesn't look more used or abused even though it was bouncing around in a topbox on dirt roads around the grand canyon. I don't think I would have loaned them a Macbook Air if I had one for their trip
Matt, are you running with a larger virtual display? That was the one thing they complained about was that they had to tab around off-screen because some dialog boxes were too large for the 800x600 display.
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So I've been using the eee PC as my main machine for about two weeks now - first week on the road in Cannes and the second week at a lab in Yorkshire.
I've spent some more time with the OS and got the KDE running pretty much as I want it - but as you say the 800 px screen is limiting in some cases - but frankly the only issues were with software setting dialogue boxes - hooked it up to an external display at 1024, put the settings in and from there on everything has been fine.
I am finding the repositories a bit limiting on Xandros though - I've still not found a decent RSS reader, a decent Podcast agrigator and the flickr plugins are very limited. The problem is since Xandros have officially said that the debian repositories will break the distro...
I'll give it another week - I'm managing to do 99% of what I need a laptop on the road to do - in fact I'm managing to use it as my main work machine - so on the road with the bike shouldn't cause a problem.
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I am finding the repositories a bit limiting on Xandros though - I've still not found a decent RSS reader, a decent Podcast agrigator and the flickr plugins are very limited. The problem is since Xandros have officially said that the debian repositories will break the distro...
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Quoi?, Sorry, Parlay Vouse, Anglaisee???
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Quoi?, Sorry, Parlay Vouse, Anglaisee???
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Lol - I'll try agian.
I am finding the {online databases containing software for linix operating systems} a bit limiting on {the particular version of linux the eee ships with} though - I've still not found a decent {news feed} reader, a decent Podcast {downloading software} and the flickr {uploading tools}. {another more widly used version of linux} {online databases containing software for linux operating systems} will break the {operating system the eee pc ships with}
That makes even less sense. Next time I'll write it in binary.
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Lol - I'll try agian.
I am finding the {online databases containing software for linix operating systems} a bit limiting on {the particular version of linux the eee ships with} though - I've still not found a decent {news feed} reader, a decent Podcast {downloading software} and the flickr {uploading tools}. {another more widly used version of linux} {online databases containing software for linux operating systems} will break the {operating system the eee pc ships with}
That makes even less sense. Next time I'll write it in binary.
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No no !
I prefer the second version , at last I am beginning to understand .
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I am finding the {online databases containing software for linix operating systems} a bit limiting on {the particular version of linux the eee ships with} though - I've still not found a decent {news feed} reader, a decent Podcast {downloading software} and the flickr {uploading tools}. {another more widly used version of linux} {online databases containing software for linux operating systems} will break the {operating system the eee pc ships with}
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Heheh, I forgot about the broad audience here  . That is what makes this forum good.
To nerd out a bit more..sorry folks:
I'm a longtime work linux user (I write software for linux clusters) and haven't had it at home for many years, so I don't have any ideas on what people use to do .. homely things. I have apples at home
What portable media player are you sycing to? What do ipod users use?
What podcast agrigators have you tried? Do you want?
People still use the GIMP for photo retouching?
How about video editing?
Any other tips for blog/youtube/writing/photo-travel workflow?
I plan to write scripts / light apps to fill in the gaps if necessary. But I'm pretty lazy, so I'd like to find things close enough  Everything I do will be free/open for others to use, of course. That'll be the nice thing about not working, I own my own ideas again!
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Welcome on board we need a linux nerd here. I have trouble running video on mine straight out of the box. I use unix at work but just a few commands no programming. So I think I can follow instructions but I've tried a few lines from other forums without success. Any ideas? I can bring up the terminal window but I need a guide in there! I only have the 2GB version so it may be limited. My current video settings are XV + OSS.
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Welcome on board we need a linux nerd here. I have trouble running video on mine straight out of the box. I use unix at work but just a few commands no programming. So I think I can follow instructions but I've tried a few lines from other forums without success. Any ideas? I can bring up the terminal window but I need a guide in there! I only have the 2GB version so it may be limited. My current video settings are XV + OSS.
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If you give me one of the videos, I'll try to figure out how to play it on the eeeeee. Oh yeah, I'll tell you how I did it afterwards.
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