[Jim]

I got a really got cut down version of xp sp2. was on demonoid but sadly this no longer exists

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I'm in the process of using nlite to downsize my copy.........

I think that tiny xp has plenty of bugs from what I gather

[Jim]

It wasn't a tinyXP, I've tried a few out and all have been buggy except this one which works great

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Just finished the install 

Mangaged to cut down xp to the bare minimum and then installed the asus drivers

It's running very fast, but I'm yet to install any doc programs

Still very impressed 

[Jim]

Nice. What have you left in?
would be keen to get a copy off you to try out

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Just finished the install 

Mangaged to cut down xp to the bare minimum and then installed the asus drivers

It's running very fast, but I'm yet to install any doc programs

Still very impressed 

Whats the boot time like?  How does it compare to the default Xandros which (based on the reviews I read) was about 15 seconds?

How do other things compare like available disk space under each installation (with comparable software under both installs such as M$-Office/FireFox/PuTTY/etc.)?

[Paul B]

I find Putty to be pretty bollocks in general.

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I find Putty to be pretty bollocks in general.

Really, whats your beef with it?

I rarely use it these days as I touch windows about once every blue-moon (actually its slightly more frequent than that as the wife persists in sticking with windows so when something goes wrong I have to sort it out), but it has most of the basic functionality of OpenSSH which I use all the time between my work computer and home.  It works well for a basic command-line ssh client and the complete bundle includes sftp and scp which are very handy for transferring things (securely).  That said  in the past I tended to just get work colleagues to install Cygwin/X whenever they wanted to connect to my server.

[Paul B]

basically I tried using it in conjunction with xming to run Fluent (CFD software) which the university have on a unix system (iceberg). When doing this it won't open the GUI and just shows me a load of dots which is feck all use.
Xstart by hummingbird works perfectly, its annoying.

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basically I tried using it in conjunction with xming to run Fluent (CFD software) which the university have on a unix system (iceberg). When doing this it won't open the GUI and just shows me a load of dots which is feck all use.
Xstart by hummingbird works perfectly, its annoying.

Ahh okay.  I guess thats more likely to have been a problem with xming though as thats the X server and the part which does the rendering for the GUI, putty just sits there and forwards the protocol, although obviously you've the experience .  You must be at Sheffield University if your using iceberg (I use it too for work).

[Paul B]

I am...maybe it is xming, any good alternatives?

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I am...maybe it is xming, any good alternatives?

PM'd you some suggestions yesterday.

[Paul B]

(Thanks)

to bring this thread back on track: I saw dylan's eee pc the other night complete with its windows install, it looked really good and the switch on time is really quick although nowhere near as quick as the off time. It looked a shed load more classy in black as well.
Someone in my office ordered one after reading this thread...

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Now running one of our Eee's with an nLite-nd (get it?!) version of XP.

Stripped it down to about 200mb but then added hotfixes, and a few programmes like Firefox, AVG, Ccleaner.

Installed fine. Once it was up and running saw a large amount of the 4gig drive was being used, realized I still had hibernation running so turned that off, also experimenting with turning off the virtual memory(pagefile). Currently at 0mb and still seems to be running fine. Now XP is only using 1gig of the harddrive.

The only thing I did wrong was assumed that the built in webcam would have it's own driver so stripped out the windows default ones. D'Oh! Took a bit to get them back again, sorted now though.

[Paul B]

I'm sure dylan's machine was using way less than that but I may be wrong?

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I'm sure dylan's machine was using way less than that but I may be wrong?

Quite possibly, but I wanted to keep some standard functions like media player etc. You can definitely strip it down quite a lot more but you start to notice things are missing (like camera drivers) 

Boot time to login screen: 40s
shutdown: 14s

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Installed fine. Once it was up and running saw a large amount of the 4gig drive was being used, realized I still had hibernation running so turned that off, also experimenting with turning off the virtual memory(pagefile). Currently at 0mb and still seems to be running fine. Now XP is only using 1gig of the harddrive.

I was reading the eeeuser forums the other day and one strong thing that stood out was the fact that SSD's have a limited read-write life-time/cycle.  So using it for swap/pagefile's is a very bad idea as the OS is then read-writing to the SSD and this drastically reduces the life of the drive.  The default install doesn't have any swap partition (as is standard on Linux installs).

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Came across an interesting review of the Eee, that had a short video showing Compiz-fusion (read: 3D eye-candy) running on the Eee after installing Ubuntu over the default Xandros installation.  That I thought showed of the capabilities of the humble hardware quite well.  Not bad considering there's not dedicated graphics card.

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Anyone who's already bought one of these can now upgrade their RAM without voiding their warranty.

[ben]

any more feedback on these, especially running XP?

have ordered one, should be arriving today at some point..  am hoping to just use openoffice and other open source software to do what I need to but may 'have' to run XP at some point

also fancied sticking a bluetooth usb dongle in there + GPS puck and using it for satnav in the camper van

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any more feedback on these, especially running XP?

have ordered one, should be arriving today at some point..  am hoping to just use openoffice and other open source software to do what I need to but may 'have' to run XP at some point

also fancied sticking a bluetooth usb dongle in there + GPS puck and using it for satnav in the camper van

No feed back but a quick comment.  If you want to use XP, then you will completely uninstall the Xandros Linux installation, I reckon you'd be hard pushed to get it dual booting.  Thats not a problem as OpenOffice, Firefox and the majority of other OSS are available across platforms, but you will need to install them all yourself.

You may find the forums at eeeuser.com useful.

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If your careful with a soldering iron you can mod it lots including GPS. http://www.reghardware.co.uk/2008/01/22/massive_eee_pc_mod/

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Looks like Elonex will be giving Asus a run for their money.

[Drew]

Looks like Elonex will be giving Asus a run for their money.

HP seem to be jumping on the band wagon
Might be the better end of the market in terms of spec, and price!
http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/19/hps-umpc-2133-revealed/

EDIT: Just found this too:
http://www.trustedreviews.com/mobile-devices/review/2008/02/18/Vye-mini-v-S37B/p1

[Drew]

Recent news:

http://www.trustedreviews.com/notebooks/news/2008/03/04/CeBIT-2008-Asus-Shows-Off-8-9in-Eee-PC/p1