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* Using DVD, you need an external DVD/CD reader
* Using DVD, you need an external DVD/CD reader
* Using USB pendrive (at least 1 GB) take a look at the [[FedoraLiveCD/USBHowTo| USB Howto page]]
* Using USB pendrive (at least 1 GB) take a look at the [[FedoraLiveCD/USBHowTo| USB Howto page]]
* Using USB pendrive, from Windows [https://fedorahosted.org/liveusb-creator liveusb-creator]


= Eee PC 70x Series =
= Eee PC 70x Series =

Revision as of 11:52, 16 February 2009

NOTE: This page is work in progress

Eee PC

The Eee PC has really taken the sub-compact pc market by storm. Although the bundled linux installation is interesting, Fedora is more our style. This page should contain all the needed quirks and notes needed to run Fedora perfectly on the Eee PC.

News

  • 2009-02-16 The 90 % of instructions was obsolete, so they have been deleted. Let's try to give a better layout to this page

Installing Fedora

  • Using DVD, you need an external DVD/CD reader
  • Using USB pendrive (at least 1 GB) take a look at the USB Howto page

Eee PC 70x Series

Hardware support

Wireless

Fedora 10 kernel natively supports EeePC 701 4G wireless hardware.



Eee PC 90x/1000 Series

Hardware support

Wireless

Eee PC 901 wireless chip is Ralink RT2860, which is not supported by current kernel (work on support is in progress), but there's an open source driver provided by Ralink. RPMFusion has an akmod package with this driver (akmod-rt2860).

Fn+F2 doesn't work here, either


Hints and alternative software

LXDE Desktop

LXDE is a lightweight desktop environment that fits perfectly on low performance PCs like netbooks. Fedora 10 has LXDE on its repository

su -c 'yum groupinstall lxde-desktop'

Easy-mode like desktop

Do you like the easy-mode of Eee Pc default OS (Xandros) ? LXPanel is a panel based desktop interface for launching easily your installed software

su -c 'yum install lxpanel'

Openbox as window manager

Openbox is a nice replacement to GNOME's and KDE's window managers .

yum -y install openbox obconf

After installation you will need to choose openbox as your new window manager. If you are running gdm click on the session button and choose Gnome/Openbox. If you have an .xinitrc that is run at log in you can add, openbox, openbox-session or openbox-gnome-session to it.

Why?

  • This Window Manager is FAST!!!
  • The decorations are very small and simple.
  • By default Openbox trys to shrink windows to fit the viewable screen
  • Did I say this how fast this WM is?

Firefox 3, really a cpu eater

Use Epiphany instead of Firefox 3... it's slim (written using the GTK libs) fast as Firefox 3, same compatibility (uses gecko as rendering engine).

Kickstart files

With a kickstart file you can ease the process of installing Fedora on your Eee PC.

Source Code

If you want to take a look at the default source code which comes in the Eee PC, you could check Asus ftp:

Comments

It might be good to coordinate efforts and reach out to http://code.google.com/p/eeedora/. Some comments at http://www.bytebot.net/blog/archives/2008/01/31/eeedora-impressions and at http://wiki.eeeuser.com/howto:eeedora