EEE PC w/Linux newbie

[snakedancer]

Hi. This is my 1st experience with Linux (on my new ASUS EEE PC) and so far I find it very friendly and familiar enuf for a non-techie like me. I've always had DOS/Windows OS b4 and I'm hoping this forum will help whenＩrun into challenges to my comprehension.

[Dapper Dan]

Hi snakedancer and welcome to the forum!

Yes, like you, I find the EEE PC interface very intuitive and easy to follow. Having had one since last December, my advice (not necessarily shared by others) is to be familiar with its capabilities, aware of its limitations and don't try to have it do things it was never intended to do.

As a light notebook for travel to surf the Internet, Email, write letters, listen to music or watch a youtrube video, it performs admirably. You'll run into trouble however if you expect it to run as a Counter Strike or LAMP server or recording studio multi-input sound recorder/mixer.

Just using extreme examples to make the point, but you get the idea. Have fun with it and let us know if we can be of assistance.

[elija]

I love my eee-pc too and use it as a lamp server but only for me when I am coding on the train. Yes I am really that sad

It performs great for that but I wouldn't use it as a live server

[Roxoff]

I put Fedora 9 and a full development environment on an 8GB SDHC card for mine. Couldn't do that on the 4GB internal system drive.

[Newperson]

Hello everyone I am new to Linux and hope to learn more. I would like to figure out more on Linux printing and how the (my) network here works.
Thank you.