Comments on: Debian-eeepc: the ideal mobile text editing device realized

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

No need for madwifi; use ath5k.

By: Simon Hürlimann

Simon Hürlimann — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Cool!

Don’t own an Eee, yet. But applaud your efforts!

Thanx for all your OpenSource contributions:-)
Over and out… Simon

By: wjl

wjl — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

How very very cool! I am following the permanent news about that little gadget as well, and although most people here seem to misinterpret it as a laptop, I think it has such a great potential…

One point tho: the device lacks any physical drives (and for good reason; I love that!) – so why are you developing a “Live CD” for it? A “Live USB image” (or SD) would be cool to have – the device should be able to boot from USB, right?

Finally, someone who is getting the idea! Keep up the good work, and please continue to letting us know about it!

cheers,
wjl aka Wolfgang Lonien
http://wolfgang.lonien.de/
http://blog.thedebianuser.org/

By: Ben Armstrong

Ben Armstrong — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Ultimately ath5k would be great. The trouble is, this is a new Atheros chip that is not yet in the official madwifi release, so I doubt if it is in ath5k yet.

By: Andrew Lee

Andrew Lee — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Better to have the debian installer on USB flash.

By: Tervel

Tervel — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Great job! Thank you very much!

By: Paul Tötterman

Paul Tötterman — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

I’m hoping the installers will include an option for installing debian on top of dm-crypt (or something similar) with one or two factor authentication (password and/or usb-flash/sd-card). The laptop is so small that it can very easily be forgotten/stolen as you wouldn’t necessarily react to your pack weighing one kg less after sitting down for some time. I imagine Debian has a good infrastructure for security, now it needs to be put to work.

By: Ben Armstrong

Ben Armstrong — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

I believe debian-live, which is the basis for our experiments so far has, or has planned support for cryptsetup, so we’ll certainly look into it.

By: JO3RI

JO3RI — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

I’m working testing with a debian on FLASH system. As you know, solide state drives don’t like write cycles.

I found a website, that explains how to install a debian system as a live system (ead-only system) BUT with the possibility to save changes in the system.

Maybe this could help?

http://wiki.flimzy.com/index.php/Debian_on_USB

By: robertsgfr@gmail.com

robertsgfr@gmail.com — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Hi Guys the efforts of guys like you are fantastic
Do you have any further on a stable OS for eeepc as xandros is somewhat usable but wont install debian packages and the synaptic installer is useless on Xandros
I wwould love to have debian on my EEEPC and not ubantu as it is too boutique
keep the work going
Onya Bros
Gary New zealand