[arch-general] Small laptops running archy?

[Nicolas Bigaouette]

The Arch's stock kernel (as any other kernel) will always be enough: What
this "special" kernel does is only to build used module inside the kernel,
reducing the loading time.

It's a lot of fun and you learn a lot about the linux kernel and your own
machine by doing so, but this does not diminish Arch's kernel ;) You will
have the exact same functionality  with both.
Here's the link:
http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=22904
There might be others too.
N


2009/4/14 Andrei Thorp <garoth at gmail.com>

> Also, there is a custom Arch kernel for Eee somewhere on AUR, iirc.
> It's optimized for the system and rather nifty from what I hear. My
> friend tried it with great success.
>
> -AT
>
> On Tue, Apr 14, 2009 at 12:37 PM, Nicolas Bigaouette
> <nbigaouette at gmail.com> wrote:
> > I have an EeePC 1000 and it works fine with Arch. It's running KDE 4.2
> > without problem. You'll always need to tweak those small machines since
> they
> > are not that powerful. For example you might want a lighter DE then KDE,
> > like XFCE or LXDE.
> > Are you talking about darcs, the distributed revision control system? If
> so
> > I don't know. I am using subversion and git though. Its quite independant
> of
> > the machine...
> > You can avoid anybody you want, but I would suggest you stay away from
> Kim
> > Jong-il... :D
> >
> > I think any netbooks, coming with XP or Linux, will have good linux
> support.
> > Mine came with a derivation of Xandros, which I wiped and installed Arch.
> I
> > do have some rants about my Eee 1000 though. The wireless card (rt2860)
> has
> > a driver, but its quality is mediocre. I've replaced it with an intel
> 4965
> > which is better IMO. The BIOS upgrades are not "stable" too: BIOS
> upgrades
> > changes the behaviour of the machine.For example, with the original
> > firmware, some keys generated different acpi events depending on the
> actual
> > state of the machine (wifi on and off for example). After an upgrade, it
> > went to a single event, and now its back to many events, but only for
> some
> > keys. Its a pain.
> >
> > I cant say for other types, but I'm still satisfied with my 1000 :)
> >
> >
> > 2009/4/14 Maurí­cio <briqueabraque at yahoo.com>
> >
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >> Do you had any experience using darcs on these
> >> small Eee-like notebooks? Is there someone I
> >> should avoid? Do you think those which come with
> >> Linux instaled are always sure to run any Linux
> >> distro?
> >>
> >> Thanks,
> >> Maurício
> >>
> >>
> >
>