Spin request (I guess)
Patrick O'Callaghan
pocallaghan at gmail.com
Tue May 19 00:31:29 UTC 2009
On Mon, 2009-05-18 at 23:55 +0000, Beartooth wrote:
> I can't decide what to title this request.
>
> The problem is that there are gobs and buckets of specialized
> distros adapted to use on things like the EeePCs -- but most of them are
> cloned from variants of Ubuntu, which I seem to be strongly allergic to.
>
> I hope there's some way the Fedora developers could either make a
> version designed to fit on such machines (Whoever invented the
> simultaneous terms "netbook" and "notebook", let alone "nettop" deserves
> to be drawn, quartered, and hanged in chains for the crows.) -- or find
> some way to encourage others to use Fedora instead of Debian derivatives.
>
> If that can be done, I'd bet there are lots of us who would
> welcome it.
I installed F10 from the Live CD on my eeePC 1000 about a month ago and
nearly everything worked out of the box except suspend/resume (Wifi
wouldn't come back) and the Bluetooth mouse (worked with minor
tweaking).
A week or so ago I upgraded to Rawhide using preupgrade and now
*everything* works out of the box, even the special function keys
(speaker volume, screen brightness etc, Wifi off/on etc.). I'm really
impressed with this.
For now I don't see why anyone would need a special Fedora spin for
these machines.
poc
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