Asus EEE PC

[Luke -Jr]

On Friday 25 April 2008, Arthur Pemberton wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 25, 2008 at 2:47 PM, Luke -Jr <luke at dashjr.org> wrote:
> >  To fully use the Eee PC, you must run a proprietary OS.
> >  I would look for something else suitable.
>
> I was unaware of this, could you expound?

The EeePC requires (either Windows or) a derivative of the Linux kernel to 
run. This derivative kernel has been modified to support some oddities of the 
Eee PC (ACPI and WiFi in particular), and the source for this modified kernel 
is not available. Their website does have a 1.6 GB ZIP file claiming to 
be "source", but it is just a bunch of binary .debs and kernel *headers*.