EeePC
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I’ve got a new toy. An Asus EeePC, a tiny subnotebook, under two pounds, tiny little 7″ screen, 512MB RAM (I’ll soon void my warranty and upgrade to a Gig), 4GB internal SSD (no harddrive). Very sturdy, very tiny. Loads of fun.
I am, of course, writing this post from it – connected to the wireless at home; openvpn, ssh, IMAP email, all straight forward.
It’s running Xandros Linux, buy I may end up changing that to something I’m more familiar with – I don’t really need the games and learning software, nor do I need the ultra easy to use mode – or the unionfs that makes sure you never “damage” the underlying Linux installation…
The plan is for this to become my second laptop that always travels with me – the personal system running Linux on which I can hack and play without having to worry about breaking a system I need for work. And without being stuck in a VM.
So far I love it. Yes, the screen is tiny an the keyboard is too small as well. But hey, that’s the point! And it has an SSD. That alone makes it worth playing with it.
[...]I like the eeePC that I got a couple of weeks ago. It’s light, it’s tiny. It has a neat little Xandros Linux based OS on it. But for what [...]
how did you get openvpn client working on it? I really want to get this set up on mine…