"One of the biggest news stories out of this year's Computex wasn't of a new chipset, GPU, or graphics card, but rather of the announcement of the ASUS Eee PC, a small, slim, and light portable computer that is priced at USD 199. Introduced by Jonney Shih, Chariman and CEO of ASUS at Intel's keynote address the first day of the show, the Eee PC has already made headlines world wide. Not only have we had the chance to actually use the ASUS Eee PC, we can also confirm some important new specifications of the notebook."
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2. This device has to interface options, one with tabs and the later with the more common KDE.
3. You know how? wait a little, this device uses an unknown chipset/processor at this time... changing maybe not be so easy at first... maybe some kernel patches to you favorite operation system... just don't count on it by the time you get it in your hands...
Member since:2006-05-08
FTA:
The Eee PC is running a version of Intel’s 910 mobile chipset, it uses a 900MHz Intel Dothan based Pentium M CPU, it has 512MB of DDR2 memory, full 802.11g wireless capability, and a flash-based hard drive. There will be at least two different models of the Eee PC, with the $199 version using a 4GB flash hard drive and the $299 version using a 8GB drive.
1. intel chipsets have great linux support
2. hacking it will be dead easy since I bet it's on
linuxbios (or a very simple/cheap bios)
Member since:2005-07-02
The kernel/CPU is irrelevant to whether you can change the "Start" menu graphic, since that's all handled in userspace.
Why on Earth would you need a kernel patch to change a UI element of the Desktop Environment?
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2006-08-09
1. I will buy one.
2. Why do companies copy the Windows Start menu? Quite frankly, the Windows UI isn't all that great. Don't understand it with Solaris, don't understand it here.
3. 2 doesn't matter too much to me as it is Linux and I can change it because I know how.