Date: Mon, 22 Jun 2009 08:45:47 -0700 From: Gary Kline <kline@thought.org> To: Matthias Apitz <guru@unixarea.de> Cc: FreeBSD Mailing List <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: questions on the "ASUS Eee Pc 1000 40G" Message-ID: <20090622154547.GB66962@thought.org> In-Reply-To: <20090622052659.GA2232@current.Sisis.de> References: <20090622003509.GA64139@thought.org> <20090622052659.GA2232@current.Sisis.de>
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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 <guru@unixarea.de> - 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
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