Since my previous post where I said I would be keeping the default Xandros installation on my EeePC I have installed Eeebuntu. I have been using it for about 2 days now, and after using paludis for a few months it is quite clear how catastrophically abysmal apt really is. I was trying to install [...]
The default theme for IceWM on the EeePC is an ugly Luna (Windows XP) clone. So I am mashing together the AsusBlue (for the taskbar) and eiskristall for window decorations.
At the moment it looks like this:
Get the latest source from my darcs repository and put the directory in /usr/share/icewm/themes and change /etc/X11/icewm/theme to read:
Theme=”eeeiskristall/default.theme”
My EeePC has arrived today. And I can quite safely say it is the best thing I have ever bought.
I was considering putting another distro on here (Gentoo), but now I have been using it all day I don’t really think it needs anything else. I even found the “advanced” interface a bit lacklustre compared [...]
I just ordered myself an EeePC 4G 701 (not Surf) which should arrive tomorrow. I will be installing Gentoo with the filesystem extended over the internal SSD and an external SD card with lvm2 for 6GBs of encrypted goodness. Stay tuned.
Things that have piqued my interest as of late:
Exherbo
“Gentoo done right”.
Exherbo is an upcoming distritrbution based on
some of the ideas of Gentoo to create a more focused distribution
honed to the needs of the small development team.
According to the site these are the main
problems with Gentoo as it stands.
Portage. The code can’t deliver the changes we [...]
