Mint on Eee PC?

[Foomandoonian]

I had a brainwave at work today: You should make a special Mint distro for the Eee. And you should call it ... (drumroll) ...

Minteee

For that reason alone, you have to do this!

[belovedmonster]

Isnt an EEE distro basically the stock distro with the appropriate drivers supplied? Wouldnt that be pretty simple to do?

[Foomandoonian]

Isnt an EEE distro basically the stock distro with the appropriate drivers supplied? Wouldnt that be pretty simple to do?

Probably, but a lot more could be done to make it more suited for the Eee. Off the top of my head: A special small icon set; small rez wallpapers; no excess apps; special UIs for Firefox, Open Office etc. to minimise menu bars; special zoom feature of some kind; offline mode plugins and apps included as default (Google Gears?); Browser tricked out with special links to online services.

I'm sure with a quick brainstorm, lots of possibilities could present themselves. Mint could be the leading Eee distro.

(Plus, it would have a cool name!)

[yamawho]

Found this guide on installing Mint to the EeePc

http://eee.ricey.co.uk/index.php

[subslug]

Found this guide on installing Mint to the EeePc

http://eee.ricey.co.uk/index.php

Thanks for that

I'll be trying this on my Eee.

I hope when people do start rolling their own version for the Eee they remove the big disk
consuming stuff. I find it amazing that we need to install the entire OpenOffice suite on these things, If you have any serious typing or data entry to do I pity the fool that has to do it on these things tiny keyboard......it's more like a keypad.

[Adler]

Hi All,

I've been following the development of the future - that is PC Maker-Wise - and there's going to be a lot of changes to come soon.

Hey, where did any one get their Asus Eee?

I actually thought that I had read that both Wal-Mart, and Sears were going to start selling this unit.

I'd like to buy one just to see what I could do with it. I'd like the challenge!

From what It have read @ http://hardware.slashdot.org/article.pl ... 9&from=rss. This might be a giant killer. I love it!

I'm glad that I embraced Linux years ago, and Linux Mint!

[yamawho]

Since your in the US, this would be a place to start ...
http://www.newegg.com/Product/ProductLi ... pc&x=0&y=0

[Adler]

yamawho,

Sure, has any one here, in the Mint Community, bought one?

[subslug]

yamawho,

Sure, has any one here, in the Mint Community, bought one?

Aye!

Newegg has all of my money.

I just tried the script on the Mint install on my EeePC and it's all pretty straight forward just like it says. The install takes a while and at certain points I swore it was frozen but it finished, I get a weird screen before my normal grub screen but it boots fine.

The fn-f6 trick to increase processor speed is nasty. It pretty much locks my system up solid and really messes with the screen when I try it. I think I'll pass on doing it again, the basic 633mhz is good enough until the worms get sorted out of it.

Everything else works great though. One weird thing of note...I could not connect to an unsecured wireless network. Secured was no problem but for whatever reason it refuses to even connect to an unsecured one. It sees it, it just won't connect.

I was assuming Mint was crazy for a while, it kept saying my wireless mouses battery was almost dead. I just thought it was one of those useless errors but nope. The stupid thing was dead. I couldn't even get windows to tell me my mouse battery status.

I ended up having to get rid of the Mint menu and just turn on a stock Gnome menu button, the Mint menu drags this thing down too much to use.

[yamawho]

yamawho,

Sure, has any one here, in the Mint Community, bought one?

I got the ASUS Eee PC 4G Surf boxing week.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.a ... 6834220261

But I ordered mine here ...

http://www.directcanada.com/products/?s ... cture=ASUS

I enabled the advanced desktop and use it with Xandros.

[Adler]

yamawho + subslug,

Hey, thanks for that!