I tried to install their latest beta the other day, and it failed. I recently bought a hp dv8t and am testing Kubuntu, Gentoo, Fedora, and Suse. Gentoo and Kubuntu have been the most stable so far, but am battling with the fact that my wireless only works with kernel 2.6.32 and better. It's hard to find distro's that let you build with the latest kernel without having to create a custom kernel. I may give Arch another chance.
Well, I think you may like Arch. I've been using Arch for almost a year and I can say only good things about it. Imagine Gentoos performance without compiling time. Its Arch in short terms. Ofcourse, you also have option to compile with abs system. There is also arch user repository with thousands of tarballs free to compile and put on your box. In my opinion, Arch gives you many options to choose without forcing you to anything.
Where did it hang up with installation? Maybe I can give a hint.
I was using the netboot latest img file when the install blew up... so I have gotten the latest stable, and will install that today as soon as I fix my partitioning. Thanks for checking.
Hardy Heron seems to be really buggy. Just yesterday my package manager stopped working properly. It gives me an error message everytime I try to install something. I might have to downgrade or move to a different os.
Hey, I bought an Eeepc recently too. I bought the 2g surf though, which doesn't come with a webcam. :( I installed arch linux on my Eeepc, which is also what I use on my desktop. I actually bought my Eeepc to help me install gentoo. XD
Das, Have you tried Arch linux? What do you think about that distribution?
MarkoVojvodic84 2 years ago
I tried to install their latest beta the other day, and it failed. I recently bought a hp dv8t and am testing Kubuntu, Gentoo, Fedora, and Suse. Gentoo and Kubuntu have been the most stable so far, but am battling with the fact that my wireless only works with kernel 2.6.32 and better. It's hard to find distro's that let you build with the latest kernel without having to create a custom kernel. I may give Arch another chance.
DasGregor 2 years ago
Well, I think you may like Arch. I've been using Arch for almost a year and I can say only good things about it. Imagine Gentoos performance without compiling time. Its Arch in short terms. Ofcourse, you also have option to compile with abs system. There is also arch user repository with thousands of tarballs free to compile and put on your box. In my opinion, Arch gives you many options to choose without forcing you to anything.
Where did it hang up with installation? Maybe I can give a hint.
MarkoVojvodic84 2 years ago
Just checked uname -a and Arch is using 2.6.32 as a standard version of kernel. Your wireless may very well work with Arch.
MarkoVojvodic84 2 years ago
I was using the netboot latest img file when the install blew up... so I have gotten the latest stable, and will install that today as soon as I fix my partitioning. Thanks for checking.
DasGregor 2 years ago
No problem Das.
MarkoVojvodic84 2 years ago
C'mon DasGregor... When u gonna make another Linux Video??? :) hehehe
kaddy.
kaddy01980 3 years ago
Yes... I need to.
DasGregor 3 years ago
hello from germany :D ^^ ,
your videos are alltime great !
Can you make a video over germany :) ?
how you find it :D ?
xXEduBuntuXx 3 years ago
Hardy Heron seems to be really buggy. Just yesterday my package manager stopped working properly. It gives me an error message everytime I try to install something. I might have to downgrade or move to a different os.
fatty459 3 years ago
I'm looking to install Gentoo on this EeePC, but want to make sure I can restore Xandros just in case...
DasGregor 3 years ago
Hey, I bought an Eeepc recently too. I bought the 2g surf though, which doesn't come with a webcam. :( I installed arch linux on my Eeepc, which is also what I use on my desktop. I actually bought my Eeepc to help me install gentoo. XD
MRauron 3 years ago
Welcome back. :)
mikebramwell 3 years ago
Thanks!! I hope to be a little better at my posts now that I have something a little more portable to do my videos on.
DasGregor 3 years ago