Debian on the Eee

Story: Debian To Replace Xandros on the Eee PC?Total Replies: 6
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Steven_Rosenber

Jun 25, 2008
11:31 AM EDT 		I would be nice to see Debian preloaded on a big commercial product.

But I'll believe it when I see it. It seems that every distro out there is working on an Eee-friendly port, from OpenBSD and NetBSD all the way to Ubuntu.

Again, Debian would be great.

There will be enough UMPCs out there for more than one distro to grab a piece of the market.

What do you think the upcoming Dell E is going to run? (Dell canceled their meeting with me for this Tuesday, for reasons unknown to me, so I didn't get a chance to ask).
jdixon

Jun 25, 2008
12:17 PM EDT 		> What do you think the upcoming Dell E is going to run?

If I had to guess, I'd guess the new version of Ubuntu they've been working on for this type of device.
number6x

Jun 25, 2008
2:56 PM EDT 		I wonder if there is a fee for running Xandros? That might be a motivation for, at least, toying with Debian.

Asus seems to have a very good track record of supporting Linux. I have been happy with their motherboards, and the Linux laptop vendors seem to favor their laptops. Lenovo also does a good job, but I think that was IBM driven originally.

If your laptop works with Debian or slack, chances are it will work with almost any other Linux out there.
azerthoth

Jun 25, 2008
5:04 PM EDT 		*shameless plug*

The current (Beta) Sabayon installer has the Eee as an install option already. The official "stable" release is only a few (~2) weeks away from developer scuttle butt.

So Sabayon lands yet another first, yay!!
thenixedreport

Jun 25, 2008
8:22 PM EDT 		You and your Sabayon. :P
gus3

Jun 25, 2008
9:06 PM EDT 		*mumble mumble grumble*

@number6x:

Yes, IBM sold their laptop division to Lenovo.
vainrveenr

Jun 26, 2008
10:11 AM EDT
Quoting:I would be nice to see Debian preloaded on a big commercial product.

But I'll believe it when I see it. It seems that every distro out there is working on an Eee-friendly port, from OpenBSD and NetBSD all the way to Ubuntu.
Certainly Ubuntu, and for good reason. It may not be the basic core-distro itself that matters most on UMPCs (Debian in this case), but rather how effectively and smoothly the more custom-developed distros based upon these can be tailored to work perfectly on UMPCs "right-out-of-the-box" so to speak. The various flavors of Ubuntu plus Xandros are of course such custom-developed distros based upon Debian.

Quoting:Again, Debian would be great.
And probably ALSO great would be the less-commercial offsprings of Debian such as the highly DistroWatch.com-ranked Linux Mint, Damn Small Linux, and Dreamlinux. Even as this is written, the distribution release of sidux 2008-02 has been just rolled; sidux a desktop Linux distribution based on Debian's unstable branch 'sid' ( see http://distrowatch.com/?newsid=04964 ).

A potentially lingering issue for UMPC users with Debian itself and some Debian-derived distros such as sidux, is last month's reported CVE-2008-0166 OpenSSL vulnerability. Yes, there are fixes for this vulnerability, such as reported by this thread's author at http://lxer.com/module/newswire/view/103054/. At the same time, can one reasonably guess that upcoming Slackware-derived distros -- competing with Debian-based ones here -- may also target UMPCs? Slackware-based Vector Linux 5.9-SOHO-DELUXE has been released just as of this writing and new releases of Zenwalk and GoblinX have already come out during the last week alone.

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