Submitted by “I discovered recently the truth of the old saying that necessity is the mother of invention. Yes, I finally did it. I bricked my beloved EeePc. I had just installed the Smart package manager and a subsequent reboot saw me stuck in, well, an eternal boot loop. Impulsive mixing of repositories always ends in tears – but not being able to boot? Argh! To rub salt into the wound I had mislaid the Xandros DVD to do a reinstall and I didn’t even have an external CD/DVD drive anyway. Organised or what?” Read the full story at Freesoftware Magazine.
The first thing I did when I got my eee was replace the Xandros install with ubuntu-eee (now known as Easy Peasy) mostly because I wanted to get OpenOffice 3 and Firefox 3 since they run so much faster.
There were plenty of other benefits as well, but the biggest was being up to date.
I really dig the ubuntu netbook remix desktop too!
Edited 2009-01-14 10:57 UTC
What and how much I’ve read of the article:
… yadda yadda yadda, requires reboot to work prope …
REBOOT!? The only time you have to reboot your linux is when changing hardware or kernel!!!
;-P