Interested in Fedora on Smaller Machines?

jeff moe at blagblagblag.org
Tue Aug 12 23:09:47 UTC 2008


Harish Pillay wrote:
>> 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.
> 
> I recall a webcam on some of these devices (the eePCs, the Acers etc)
> - does it work without blobs?

Yes. uvcvideo driver used for 701/900 is blobless, AFAIK.  I'm not sure about 
the 901/1000 models or the Acers.

-Jeff




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