Comments on: How the ASUS EeePC showed me I was wrong about Linux

By: Dr.S.B.Asoka Dissanayake

Dr.S.B.Asoka Dissanayake — Tue, 20 Sep 2011 19:29:21 +0000

It is me again.
Is it alright if I copy and use word for word what is stated above as an introduction to a little book I write on Linux?
Thank you in anticipation.
Alternative is to post me an email restating your comments please!

By: Dr. Asoka Dissanayake (Medical)

Dr. Asoka Dissanayake (Medical) — Wed, 24 Nov 2010 18:58:30 +0000

I wonder what distribution that is installed in your EeePC?

There are 330 odd active Linux distributions.

In my IBM laptop I have 8 distributions running (one at a time for distributions) for demonstrating purposes.

All my desktop computers at home have a different version for my wife and kids to play with no cost for me at all.

My favorite is Puppy Linux (there is a version Pupee for netbooks) but my Gold Standard is PCLinux-2010.

I have written a small comments for 100 odd distributions at my blogspot at Google’s.
If you have time please visit asoka and parafox distributions.
Mind you I have said good bye to Microsoft and just celebrated the 3rd Anniversary with little Wine (Wine is not Windows emulator) from the celler1

By: Tom

Tom — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 08:48:37 +0000

Linux is a very good OS, I am using it for many years. But it’s still not ready for the normal user.

By: Donnie

Donnie — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 22:04:43 +0000

there is a new forum starting up for Linux distros i believe there are several posts about the Linux eeepc Linux, you know for general help and what not, check it out. its brand new and needs content i know a few of the posters are really good with linux and actually have the eeepc

http://www.linuxtechforum.com

By: wolfen69

wolfen69 — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 05:42:46 +0000

those who care about their computing experience and want full control over their computer will always be drawn to linux.

i don’t care if it overtakes microsoft. it is perfect for me and millions of other users.

By: tony t

tony t — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 05:26:51 +0000

I am glad that there are alternatives to windows. I am so tired of windows problems and want to send a message that windows are not getting the support to help there customers. I say thanks to all that help to this cause. I will talk to my tech guy to see how long will it take to get it working. tony t. Nov 2008.

By: dick hole

dick hole — Sun, 19 Oct 2008 06:27:34 +0000

linux doesn’t need to be ready for the mainstream. who gives a fuck if it’s used by the mainstream? i certainly don’t care if you use it, as long as the community of developers that have contributed to it continue to.

if you want some fancy gui shit that lets you operate a computer with only a mouse and never having to read a man page, then stick with windows or mac os (which by the way is not like linux at all, it is based on some version of BSD which is significantly different). that’s what those developers are paid to do. linux and all of the packaged GNU tools are desirable because of the superior amount of control you have over what you’re machine is doing for you. learn to use the computer well and you’ll never be able to use a windows system again. it is just too terribly inefficient to get anything done.

on a final note, linux isn’t open source so that you don’t have to pay for it. it’s open source so that if it doesn’t do something you want it to, you can change it yourself, and contribute that enhancement to the community. certainly can’t do that with windows or mac.

By: armk

armk — Sat, 09 Aug 2008 14:44:24 +0000

Same thing happened to me! I used to like the phrase “Linux is only free if your time is worth nothing”. And I would laugh when Linux geeks would show me those horrible GUIs and say that they’re “just like Windows” (Yeah, right!). But, again, the Eee PC showed me that Linux can actually be made good. So much so, that the next thing I did was dust off an old laptop and install Ubuntu as its only operating system!

I still use Vista to be sure (and I actually kind of like it), but with things like the Eee PC, Open Office (I dropped Word because Microsoft removed the equation editor and then discovered that OO is a pleasure to use), and Ubuntu (Linux for dummies) it is ever clearer that the end of Microsoft Windows is near. As soon as Linux learns to do good hardware plug and play I just might ditch it altogether!

By: Mike

Mike — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 20:27:56 +0000

It’s worth mentioning that Xandros has a packaged distribution which is not very expensive and should replicate your Eee experience on a laptop or desktop. The packaged version comes with Crossover, I believe, which lets you run MS Office natively and directly under Linux.

By: winter

winter — Sat, 12 Jul 2008 13:17:53 +0000

why in the hell do people go on and on crying about how hard it is to get things initially set up with linux os’ like ubuntu? I went straight from xp to ubuntu and within a few hours with help from the multitude of forums and websites, everything was going fine. In fact it was better than fine, it was spectacular and I never looked back. I wonder how I ever lived without linux. I have several pc’s in the house and they are all running different variants of linux or unix now and I’m much happier having taken control of my own computers and not having some bloated corporation unconcerned with my interests telling me what to do.