Posted on Wednesday, March 18 2009 @ 2:40 CET by Thomas De Maesschalck
ASUS is among the few tier-one hardware vendors that
understands Linux. Of the dozens of ASUS products we have tested over
the years, it is hard to remember a product from ASUS that did not work
well with Linux. ASUS was even the first motherboard vendor to ship with
an embedded instant-on Linux environment known as SplashTop and they
continued their adoption of this lightweight Linux desktop with their
notebooks and a massive number of motherboards. Earlier this year ASUS
also struck a deal to put Phoenix HyperSpace on some of their products,
which is another Linux-based environment. On top of these other Linux
efforts, ASUS also ships a modified version of Xandros Linux on their
very popular Eee PC series. Their recently introduced Eee Top series,
however, is not Linux friendly at all with the current generation of
Linux distributions. The ASUS Eee Top ET1602 is a mighty fine piece of
hardware at an exceptional value, but it does not know how to play with
Linux without taking some advanced steps.
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