So, I broke down and got a netbook. My HP laptop is nice, it runs Fedora rather flawlessly (touchpad and keyboard bugs aside), and it's got a big screen. But after my last trip to see my grandparents, it was a pain to lug around, and it had next to no battery life. So I figured the next generation was here. I got the new Asus EEE PC 1005 that Best Buy had.
I'll go into some details in the morning, as it's late now, but I finally got everything working well enough to use it. I'm typing my first blog entry here, I've got full keyboard, touchpad, networking, sound, and even some custom Asus widgets to do power management. There's some small bugs with display brightness, but I'm happy I can boot and update the system now. It really didn't take much. A BIOS upgrade was the big thing.
I've got Ubuntu running on it, so the next step is to see how Ubuntu does on this as a simple flash/python/ruby development system. Whee.
For now, sleep.
Posted by flynn at February 2, 2010 1:06 AM