ASUS Eee PC [MERGED]

**juntzo** · January 2nd, 2008 04:47 PM

Originally Posted by ghosthunter

the iTouch can only do "portable" surfing if you have an open hot spot in the area. Unfortunately those are few and far inbetween.

The Eee Pc can use wifi, standard R45 lan, 3G or GPRS via celfone connectivity. Not to mention you can actually reply to your yahoo mail, not just read them. hehehe

another question to the tech gurus: my nokia pc suite application which i use to transfer files and sometimes connect my laptop to the net by usb cable runs on windows xp and it does not support linux! in layman terms, please advice how can i have same features on the eee pc without installing xp?

to rephrase the question: how do i connect my cellphone to the eee pc without installing windows xp?

**architect** · January 2nd, 2008 05:44 PM

You can install wine which lets you run Windows applications in Linux or connect your phone using the following method -

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=2275758

**juntzo** · January 3rd, 2008 08:49 AM

Originally Posted by architect

You can install wine which lets you run Windows applications in Linux or connect your phone using the following method -

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=2275758

thank you very much!

i think i will try wine first.... since the procedure in the ubuntu forum is too technical for me and i may wind up destroying the eee pc!

**Jun aka Pekto** · January 4th, 2008 02:16 AM

Originally Posted by juntzo

thank you very much!

i think i will try wine first.... since the procedure in the ubuntu forum is too technical for me and i may wind up destroying the eee pc!

WINE is very technical regardless which Linux distro you use. What makes it attractive is of course the low cost which is free. From personal experience, it's a pain in the *ss especially when running games with it.

I think the latest and easiest implementation of WINE is CrossOver which isn't free. If I were to go with WINE, CrossOver would be the best:
CrossOver Linux by Code Weavers

**juntzo** · January 4th, 2008 08:55 AM

thanks tukayo! maybe i'll just wait for the eee pc with preinstalled windows xp lite?

**niky** · January 4th, 2008 01:26 PM

Agh... Wine just looks too complicated...

Oh well... all I really want to do is have the ability to run GIMP... I still have a full-sized laptop for everything else.

**juntzo** · January 4th, 2008 01:58 PM

on second thought... maybe i don't really need to connect the eee pc to my cell to access the net while on the go! it has wifi and my cell is 3g so why bother....

**Jun aka Pekto** · January 4th, 2008 02:46 PM

Originally Posted by niky

Agh... Wine just looks too complicated...

Oh well... all I really want to do is have the ability to run GIMP... I still have a full-sized laptop for everything else.

GIMP originated in Linux. It shouldn't be a problem at all. I assume you have Windows on your regular lappie. There's a Windows version of GIMP that's floating around the web if you want it on your regular lappie. But if you have Linux on the Eee PC, just install the Linux version of GIMP. Well, that and whatever dependencies are required such as GtK and others if it's not part of the OS.

Again, personally...... I'd buy CrossOver Linux if I bought an Eee PC. It's creators deserve compensation for making WINE much easier to use.

**architect** · January 4th, 2008 05:50 PM

I definitely would agree CrossOver performs a lot better than Wine. In fact, it was initially reported to be included in the Asus Eee PC but somehow was subsequently dropped from the production model. Perhaps Asus just didn't want to pay the licensing fee and increase the overall production costs.

But personally I'd much rather run Linux apps in Linux, Windows apps in Windows. Of course that assumes either you are double booting or have the luxury of more than one PC. Unfortunately given the minimal specs of the Eee PC, it does not quite make sense to install a (sort of) double boot on it, though that has not stopped people from doing so.

**niky** · January 4th, 2008 06:10 PM

The problem with installing GIMP is that I'm a complete Linux newbie. The last time I did any programming at all, we were still using 64k floppies...

I'll look around... not interested in Wine, as the only Windows Apps I could possibly want are the CorelGraphics suite, and that definitely won't run on the Eee.