Interested in Fedora on Smaller Machines?

Conrad Meyer konrad at tylerc.org
Tue Aug 12 16:00:58 UTC 2008


Quoth jeff:
> Jeremy Katz wrote:
> > Smaller form-factor machines such as the Asus eeePC have gotten a fair
> > bit of the tech press spotlight of late.  Have you bought one with the
> > idea of running Fedora on it?  Or have you thought about doing so?
> 
> I've done a few different draft images for the Asus EeePC model 900 that can 
be 
> put on a USB pen drive then booted and optionally installed. I used 
> livecd-tools to build them.
> 
> Gnome Image (600M):
> http://www.freeeee.org/images/FREEEEE-200808080001.ext2
> 
> Text only (199M):
> http://www.freeeee.org/images/FREEEEE-minimal-200808102048.ext2
> 
> Minimal GUI openbox (300M):
> http://www.freeeee.org/images/FREEEEE-200808080001.ext2
> 
> I've done a number of other images floating around as well, and I have a 
super 
> rad one waiting in the wings hahaha.
> 
> 
> These are based on BLAG 90k which is based on Fedora 9. The kernel (-libre + 
> -rt) supports all hardware on the EeePC 701/900 using *only* free software. 
> This includes wifi with the ath5k driver. It is based on -libre and -rt plus 
> various other patches.
> 
> If you are interested in this I can keep you updated when I do new images 
(like 
> every few days right now).
> 
> -Jeff

Perhaps you meant to post different links for the Openbox and GNOME images? 
They look the same to me.

Regards,
-- 
Conrad Meyer <konrad at tylerc.org>
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