I purchased an ASUS Eee PC 900A a few weeks ago and I found myself using it more than my main system.

A few weeks ago I purchased an ASUS EeePC 900A and I absolutely love the little netbook.
The default Xandros install was horrible. It mounts the file systems under UnionFS which blocks you from upgrading the packages as it effectively eats up all disk space if you try it.

Needless to say, Xandros got wiped off the system faster than I was initially going to remove it.

After adding a 2GB stick of Corsair RAM into the unit, I installed Archlinux and never looked back.
I have noticed that I have begun to use my Eee PC 900A a lot more than my main system or my older laptop.

I am preaching to the choir here, but I highly recommend that everyone uses Openbox on their netbook (and heck on their main machines as well :P). A window manager will always outperform a full blown desktop environment on this hardware.

If anyone is interested here is my 900A's desktop:

(Openbox with tint2 and trayer)

I was feeling a bit nostalgic today and I found myself browsing old screen shots of Afterstep, fvmw, blackbox, KDE 1.0, etc.

It is an interesting feeling to look back on things you used to use. You cannot help noticing just how far things have come and it invariably leaves you wondering where all that time between then and now went so quickly.

I just had to shake my head. Even though it was over ten years ago, it still feels like it was yesterday when my father came home with a copy of Red Hat Linux 5.0 that he purchased on a whim and inadvertently started me on this journey.

I kind of wish that I still had backups and screen shots of my setups from back then. It is a shame that all I have left is my configuration files for blackbox which are dated 2001.

How long have you been using GNU/Linux? Feel free to share some of your fond memories in the comment section if you want too.

SliTaz, a GNU/Linux distribution which weighs in at only 25 megabytes, recently caught my eye and as a fan of light-weight distributions I had to check it out.

Everything is fairly straight forward. During the boot process it asks you a few simple questions regarding your preferred locale, keymap setting, audio card, and finally the resolution and color depth that you wish to use. Unfortunately for me (and not surprisingly), Dvorak was not among the items that were offered in the keymap prompt so I had to settle for the US (Qwerty) option and attempt to remember the layout.