Asus EEE PC running xubuntu +compiz

Oh, that's very interesting.

Did I understand well, that you didn't install EEE-Buntu but just the regular Ubuntu 8.10 and yet everything worked perfectly straight away?

That makes me think two things:
1) Very encouraging, I want to try it.
2) In that case, I wonder what is the point of a separate eeeBuntu.

By the way, which model do you have?

i believe eeeeeeebuntu is smaller.

seepauliedie: fair point, I see.

It's an eee701, 4GB storage, 512MB ram.

amazing, really amazing. They are cheap as hell right now and they manage to do everything what I need. I run xubuntu with compiz on my desktop as primary system and seeing that I can do the same combo on an old eee is just amazing.

Hi KusuriRX... they need "fiddling-around" if you install the OS for yourself. That's a big challenge for Linux - Microsoft has as good as ensured that manufacturers sell PCs with Windows installed.
Issue 1> Users have already paid for and got Windows
Issue 2> Very few PCs have all the "fiddling" sorted by the manufacturers.

But in the case of eeeBuntu, it's beyond my understanding why nobody has found it necessary to get all the components working, and then fed back the fixes into the OS.