25 Apr
2008
25 Apr
'08
8:48 p.m.
On Friday 25 April 2008, Arthur Pemberton wrote:
On Fri, Apr 25, 2008 at 2:47 PM, Luke -Jr [email protected] 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*.