This previous Christmas, I asked for and was given a brand new Eee PC (701). When I opened it, the comments around the room came quickly, “That’s a computer?” and “It’s so small” and “What a neat toy.” Well, that Toy has been on quite a Linux journey in recent months. And I’m now running eeeXbuntu on the Eee PC. Here’s how I arrived at that operating system, along with some clues about where I may go next.

When I first received the Eee PC, it took about ten minutes of charging to get it to boot up, and my pleasure with my Eee was almost immediate.

Before I could even get comfortable on the floor it had booted up and was waiting for my input. “Simple” mode was exactly that- even as a power user, I could very much appreciate the design of the simple Xandros desktop. The tabs, the icons, the speed at which I was connected to some random wireless network in the neighborhood: this was incredible. If I didn’t know anything about computers or operating systems, I could turn this thing on and send email or start typing a document in minutes.

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