[Opensource]eeepc

Fri Apr 11 14:52:43 EST 2008

Piece of cake to reimage an eeePC Peter .. took me less than 10 min. Easy
enough for even a student technician to do using either the recovery CDROM
provided or one of the downloadable images under development such as
eeeXubuntu. It is all good open stuff and the best thing is that we are free
to share our ideas, experiences and software images.
     http://wiki.eeeuser.com/ubuntu:eeexubuntu:home

That is an interesting thing about the open source user community that is
growing to support the eeePC will inevitably extend the lifetime of this
hardware for perhaps a decade. I only plan to hang onto them for two years
and rotate. We may have a giggle in 10 years time about somebody that got
XYZ running on one of these units. Here are some links worth reading.
     http://del.icio.us/rgesthuizen/eeepc

Don't discount the OLPC. This approaches collaborative computing from an
entirely different direction. We are doing both at our college. Plan is for
kids to take the cheaper OLPC laptops home rather like their music
instruments. The eeePC's go into a library book box.
     http://del.icio.us/rgesthuizen/olpc

Think not what you cannot do but what you are free to do. Who could have
predicted that putting cheap and nasty little cameras into mobile phones
would become so popular. Mark my words, this is a similar disruptive
technology that will turn things upside down. We live in exciting times.

Regards Roland

On 11/04/2008, Peter Ruwoldt <ruwoldtp at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Is there an easy mechanism for reimaging these devices?
> Peter
>
> On 11/04/2008, Roland Gesthuizen <rgesthuizen at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > yep .. we have some eeePC units. Used by our Integration kids and very
> > good value to take the pressure off the school labs. We decided to keep the
> > default Linux based desktop. It works, and works very well. Am now curious
> > about the next model due to be released that has a slightly larger monitor,
> > touch screen and bluetooth (?).
> >
> > Along with a class set of hte OLPC computers we are weaving these into
> > our eLearning plans. I am writing up something for the VITTA journal and a
> > workshop at the ICTEV winter conference. Come along to the next N2N (former
> > PCEDUG) meeting and I'll bring one along.
> >
> > Regards Roland
> >
> > On 11/04/2008, WEIR Andrew <andrew.weir at thomascarr.vic.edu.au> wrote:
> > >
> > >  Dear all
> > > Has anyone had any success in getting hold of demo Eeepc's
> > > we would like to have a look and see how they would go to replace the
> > > current class sets of laptops.
> > > As most kids save to memory bars or there network drives it seems to
> > > solve some problems.
> > > We also want to see what technical issues we would run into with the
> > > units.
> > > Any advice would be useful
> > >
> > > Andrew
> > >
> > >
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