[Novalug] Tablet OS?

[Paul Bohme]

Beartooth wrote:
>
>     My local shop, knowing me, pointed out that they now had a tablet 
> that came with linux -- an ASUS Eee PC running Xandros. In a weak 
> moment, and not having heard of xandros's deal with the Gates of Hell, 
> I bought it.


Have one - it's not close to a 'tablet' - simply a very small laptop.  
(Have a ThinkPad X41 Tablet as well - *that* qualifies more as a 
tablet..) ;-)


>     It comes with a 7" screen, about 4 GB of (solid-state!) hard 
> drive, and 512 MB of memory. But I added a camera-type memory card 
> with about 4 GB, and a thumb drive that adds 8 GB of storage.
>
>     But despite being linux underneath, xandros is already too 
> windowed up for me.


It's definitely not for the usual Linux user - there are tons of sites 
and pages for putting various distros on the EeePC.


>     It has synaptic (if I can find out how to launch it); but I'm 
> thinking  I might as well go ahead and install some more congenial OS, 
> rather than re-tailor xandros.
>
>     Is there a consensus on what would be good?


Depends - what distro do you prefer normally?  For me, it's Arch.  There 
are a bunch of people that have had success with the Ubuntu family, and 
various others.

I'd start with http://wiki.eeeuser.com/ and see where that takes you.

  -P