Re: Interested in Fedora on Smaller Machines?

[jeff <moe blagblagblag org>]

Conrad Meyer wrote:
> 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.

Whoops, you're right, thx.

Openbox (iirc!)
http://www.freeeee.org/images/FREEEEE-minimal-gui-200808102140.ext2

-Jeff