Ronnie Tucker

After much tinkering with my Eee I’ve finally settled on an OS I like.
The Eee comes with a highly modified Xandros Linux which, on boot, makes your Eee look like a kindergarten toy. Not cool. But you can enable the IceWM menu (IceWM is the default window manager) but you can take it further by installing KDE on there too so you get a full KDE desktop with no big kiddie style icons on the screen. Cooler. Better still is the fact that you can install X/K/Ubuntu on there too! But the down side is that the wireless and wired networking don’t work and in some cases the battery meter is screwed. Not cool.

In comes eeeXubuntu (below). This is Xubuntu with patches applied to get your networking (wired and wireless) working! Hurrah! Not only that but all your other bits and bobs such as sound work fine! Cool!

Not only does eeeXubuntu work great on the Eee but you can pimp it to the max with Compiz Fusion! (below) Uber-cool!

So, the lesson is: Eee kicks ASS!

And to prove the point, here’s a quick Google Video of my EEE booting eeeXubuntu then running Compiz Fusion.