Comments on: Asus Eee-PC 901 OS recommendations?

By: Yonica

Yonica — Sat, 02 Jan 2010 08:20:48 +0000

I got an Asus Eee as a christmas gift. It is very compact but i wish that the LCD screen was larger.

By: Caramoan Philippines

Caramoan Philippines — Mon, 28 Dec 2009 17:02:54 +0000

i always use my Asus Eee PC when i am travelling. It is very convenient to carry on any place.
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By: Techgirl

Techgirl — Wed, 23 Dec 2009 06:58:53 +0000

I own an Asus Eee and an acer netbook but i often use the Asus Eee because it is so much lighter and easily fits in my small bag.
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By: Austin

Austin — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 01:36:47 +0000

i know someone said 16GB sdhc card but they make a 32GB if anyone is wondering. its at newegg

By: Roy

Roy — Mon, 16 Feb 2009 18:50:26 +0000

@Name: I think we mean different things when we talk about ‘usability’. Vista is heavier, but by comparison, XP is harder navigate. Options are buried deeper and things like wireless networking are downright counter-intuitive.

By: Name (required)

Name (required) — Mon, 16 Feb 2009 13:59:46 +0000

If you think that “It’s really one of the worst Windows versions when it comes to usability” about XP..
I think you have installed worst and oldest drivers for your own hands..

Fix this up please, and read your post text again
I think you will change your mind =)

Vista is a heaviest OS i ever seen. It’s not a system that may be installed on a device (Exceptions for cases, when you hate this device).

By: PeteCress

PeteCress — Wed, 24 Dec 2008 17:05:48 +0000

You guys need to invest in a disc imaging utility before trying different OS’s.

I use something called TeraByte Image. Boots to DOS, images my 901’s system to a USB2 hard drive in about 20 minutes. Restores in the same time. Probably a half-dozen similar ones out there, but this is the one I stumbled into years back. FWIW, it successfully runs from a memory stick – and some other imaging utilities are said to have problems there.

I’m about to try putting XP on this thing (again)…. To recover from that, I’ll need to run the Asus recovery CD to get the partitioning back to Linux… but after that it will be only 20 minutes unattended to get my eee Ubuntu system back there exactly the way I left it.

By: Roy

Roy — Fri, 12 Sep 2008 13:49:22 +0000

Hi Horakus. I currently have Ubuntu EEE running. Unfortunately, the latest version (which includes Netbook Remix) requires a full install, and I’m somewhat reluctant to reinstall my eee-pc for a fourth time since I got it.

By: Horakus

Horakus — Fri, 12 Sep 2008 05:52:24 +0000

Maybe you could try this:

http://www.ubuntu-eee.com

Ubuntu Eee is not only Ubuntu optimized for the Asus Eee PC. It’s an operating system, using the Netbook Remix interface, which favors the best software available instead of open source alternatives (ie. Skype instead of Ekiga).

It seems to work (almost) out of the box with 901…

By: Daniel

Daniel — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 18:07:04 +0000

I dislike the Xandros disribution that shipped with my eee1000. It’s slow, clumbsy and unintuitive. I installed Ubuntu and was generally impressed; although all the lines of code I had to enter to enable the wireless adapter was a little cumbersome, it worked. The OS is generally nice to use. Codecs such as .avi and .wmv can be installed via the application manager with relative ease.

Where, though, does it install? At no point does Ubuntu prompt for an install location. There are 6 partitions of my SSD for some unfathomable reason, one of which I’m required to format should I wish to install XP, but none of which I am able to without having to restore my eeepc from the recovery disk. It simply wont boot. Very irritating.