[PLUG] Trouble with Asus Eee PC...

[Michael Robinson]

It has Xandros Linux on it where the window manager is decidedly 
custom.  I'm starting to get the hang of apt-get and I've gotten 
vlc media player to play a DVD using an external DVD burner I 
picked up today, but there seem to be many more problems to 
solve.  The firefox version on it is 2.0.0.14, which doesn't 
support the media connectivity plugin.  I bought crossover 
linux and installed IE 6, but it installed it in a win98 
bottle which won't support a decent release of windows media 
player.  Crossover is a pain to work with, it has to be 
launched from the command line because of the custom window 
manager's lack of support for custom shortcuts.  I guess 
the system is just plain old and not very upgradable.
I know that the solid state drive is only 20 gigs, but that
should be plenty of room for a more up to date Linux system.

I'm not sure what all the repositories are for debian, but I
seem to have added the standard suspects by adding a records
that points to the osu open source lab site.  I couldn't find
libdvdcss2, so I finally cheated and downloaded it directly
opting to install it with dpkg instead of apt-get.  

I wish I could add a shortcut to vlc media player to the window 
manager.  Uge!  

Anyone else have experience with the Asus Eee 900 running Linux?

I seem to have the standard C and C++ tools installed for 
programming, which surprisingly appear to be fairly current.