From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jun 22 15:45:53 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 77C181065680 for ; Mon, 22 Jun 2009 15:45:53 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kline@thought.org) Received: from aristotle.thought.org (ns1.thought.org [209.180.213.210]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 172108FC1A for ; Mon, 22 Jun 2009 15:45:52 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kline@thought.org) Received: from thought.org (tao.thought.org [10.47.0.250]) (authenticated bits=0) by aristotle.thought.org (8.14.2/8.14.2) with ESMTP id n5MFjoTL001015; Mon, 22 Jun 2009 08:45:50 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kline@thought.org) Received: by thought.org (nbSMTP-1.00) for uid 1002 kline@thought.org; Mon, 22 Jun 2009 08:45:48 -0700 (PDT) Date: Mon, 22 Jun 2009 08:45:47 -0700 From: Gary Kline To: Matthias Apitz Message-ID: <20090622154547.GB66962@thought.org> References: <20090622003509.GA64139@thought.org> <20090622052659.GA2232@current.Sisis.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-15 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: <20090622052659.GA2232@current.Sisis.de> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.3i X-Organization: Thought Unlimited. Public service Unix since 1986. X-Of_Interest: With 22++ years of service to the Unix community. X-Spam-Status: No, score=-4.4 required=3.6 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.2.3 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.2.3 (2007-08-08) on aristotle.thought.org Cc: FreeBSD Mailing List Subject: Re: questions on the "ASUS Eee Pc 1000 40G" X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 22 Jun 2009 15:45:53 -0000 On Mon, Jun 22, 2009 at 07:26:59AM +0200, Matthias Apitz wrote: > El día Sunday, June 21, 2009 a las 05:35:14PM -0700, Gary Kline escribió: > > > i found two at newegg.com. both are the "Eee PC"; both come with > > linux. this one is the subject line seems to come with 40G of > > flash/solid state memory. Is this even possible for $400 given > > current technology? > > > > is there any FBSD version available? since it has an rj-45 lan > > jack, i will be able to download the text-to-speech software i'll > > need. > > > > any feedback? suggestions for fbsd-capable subnotebooks, etc?? > > > > gary > > You might want to check this page: http://wiki.freebsd.org/AsusEee > > I run 8-CURRENT on an EeePC 900 (with 20 GByte SSD); > i have that page open [in another room]. all the asus Eee's look nice, but i'd like more meaty info on these computers. since you're already running 8 on the 900, maybe you can clue me in. what's the speed of your Atom CPU? CAn you run anything X--(X Window System)? also, how far can you go before you max out your computer? RAM, SSD? I only want todemo that a freebsd computer w/ keyboard can be used with the KDE accessibility apps. tts primarily. something i could use with the festival speech tools. i almost choked when i saw the windows touchscreen [heavy] device for 8000-9000 dollars! i thought, ...er, um, will the electrons would melt if i told my thoughts! in civil language, it blew me away. given all the brilliant, open-source stuff plus reasonably-sized (and *affordable*) hardware, it seems like i should be able to cobble something together at my non-profit paradigm for MUCH less than 8K thanks! gary > matthias > -- > Matthias Apitz > t +49-89-61308 351 - f +49-89-61308 399 - m +49-170-4527211 > e - w http://www.unixarea.de/ > People who hate Microsoft Windows use Linux but people who love UNIX use FreeBSD. -- Gary Kline kline@thought.org http://www.thought.org Public Service Unix http://jottings.thought.org http://transfinite.thought.org For FBSD list: http://transfinite.thought.org/slicejourney.php The 4.98a release of Jottings: http://jottings.thought.org/index.php