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I'm posting this from my new Eee PC, which has turned up earlier than I expected, so I now have a real Linux PC, albeit in miniature.
All of the publicity material only mentioned the office and internet appications, but I'm pleased that GCC, Python, Perl and Ruby come pre-installed, as does Vim but not emacs or the Gimp. Nothing I couldn't add, of course, but I need to be picky with only a total of 4Gb disk space (ok, now it's 6Gb because I've added an SD card).
It was also really easy to integrate it with the Windows XP wifi network at home, and to connect to network printers, which was a pleasant surprise -- my past experience of Linux and wifi has not been good. It does seem to worthwhile activating the undocumented "advanced mode" which gives a standard KDE desktop.
The keyboard needs a very positive push on the keys, so I'm tending to miss some letters, and I have to do a lot of scrolling on the 7" screen, but as I see it as positioned as an overgrown PDA rather than a cut-down computer it's all looking good.
I'm posting this from my new Eee PC, which has turned up earlier than I expected, so I now have a real Linux PC, albeit in miniature.
All of the publicity material only mentioned the office and internet appications, but I'm pleased that GCC, Python, Perl and Ruby come pre-installed, as does Vim but not emacs or the Gimp. Nothing I couldn't add, of course, but I need to be picky with only a total of 4Gb disk space (ok, now it's 6Gb because I've added an SD card).
It was also really easy to integrate it with the Windows XP wifi network at home, and to connect to network printers, which was a pleasant surprise -- my past experience of Linux and wifi has not been good. It does seem to worthwhile activating the undocumented "advanced mode" which gives a standard KDE desktop.
The keyboard needs a very positive push on the keys, so I'm tending to miss some letters, and I have to do a lot of scrolling on the 7" screen, but as I see it as positioned as an overgrown PDA rather than a cut-down computer it's all looking good.