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Thank You Hack Week! (openSUSE on Eee PC)
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A couple of months ago, I picked up an Eee PC with the thought that it’d be a good thing to have on trips and whatnot — the last few trips I’ve been on, I’ve barely been able to open my laptop after the person in front of me has leaned back in their seat, whereas the Eee PC has such a tiny footprint that it’d be ideal for cramped spaces.
While it’s groovy that the Eee PC runs Linux, I’ve been thinking about how to put openSUSE on the little beast. Lucky for me, Sonja Krause-Harder is already working on it as a Hack Week II project:
(I wonder if desktop effects would have any prayer of working on the Eee PC?)
Nice work, Sonja! The files aren’t up yet for this, but Sonja writes that the documentation and whatnot will be up on the wiki later. I hope to bump mine up to 1GB of RAM from 512MB before I head out to Nuremberg on Sunday, and I wouldn’t mind putting openSUSE on it before then, too.
Didn’t suse introduce something called ‘profiles’ in 10.3 which allowed you to install different ‘flavours’ of suse depending on the profile.
It would be ace to have hardware profiles in opensuse 11.0, eg:
an eeepc profile on the x86 install
a PS3 profile on the PowerPC install
ah, what i meant to say is “patterns” not “profiles”.
Will this work feed into opensuse development?
I hope so because an eeepc Pattern would rock.
I have eeeXubuntu installed on mine, upgraded to KDE4, removed the panel, enabled KWin composite effects and it works brilliantly! The combination of Plasma and KWin effects makea a huge improvement in usability. But I miss openSuse, so I’ll be giving this a crack soon.