[nycbug-talk] Asus eeePC First Impressions

[Ray Lai]

Off topic, but if you guys are interested in the OLPC, it is available
until November 26 to North Americans: http://laptopgiving.org/

-Ray-


On Nov 23, 2007 11:36 PM,  <george at ceetonetechnology.com> wrote:
> Quoting Steven Kreuzer <skreuzer at exit2shell.com>:
>
> > Greetings-
> >
> > I was wandering around the internet and I found this blog post about
> > a persons first impressions on the eeePC, which we have talked about on
> > this list a few times.
> >
> > http://tinyurl.com/2lx4es
> >
>
> Interesting stuff. . .
>
> > In a nutshell, the machine ships with some proprietary hardware, and to get
> > the wireless to work you need to use ndiswrapper.
> >
>
> Eeek.
>
> I had just heard it had atheros-based wireless, so in discussion after
> the last meeting, a few of us assumed ath on FBSD would work nicely. . .
>
> > In addition, the acpi module that they shipped is a modified version of
> > the asus_acpi kernel module from Linux 2.6.21.4. Asus apparently has not made
> > the source available, which is a violation of the GPL
>
>
> You gotta laugh at the GPL issue .. . I mean, end of the day, GPL ends
> up being the BSD license in practice.  With a distortion of the
> attribution clause.
>
>
> >
> > I was planning on picking up one of these, but now that the retail price is
> > $399, combined with the fact that it doesn't look like you'll be able to
> > get BSD fully working on it, I think I am going to pass
> >
>
> Yeah. . . you can note from earlier posts I was extremely enthusiastic . .
>
> Then the delays happened, the price doubled, then the local vendor a
> number of us use got screwed by the distributors. . . Now I'm in limbo
> on it.
>
> But with the driver issue (no ndis for me. . .) affecting at least the
> wireless if you want to run a BSD, then, err, I'll stay in limbo.
>
> And this junk about ruining the warranty when opening to access the
> OPEN mini pci slot is just nuts.  Apparently, some later production
> runs of the current available model do not have the extra available
> slot.
>
> It really would have worked out nicely if everything had vaguely
> resembled what they seemed.
>
>
> g
>
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