thank you for sharing your experience!
The built-in speakers are bad indeed, not loud enough.

The keyboard is ok for me, though a bit small of course. I’m using the German layout.

Since some of my friends and colleagues asked about how to get this beautiful netbook I wonder if there would be a similar model now or soon, especially with a flash disk and hopefully a more powerful processor. Though I will keep my S101 I hope flash-based eee pcs will stay available. Because I’m still at sea and will be so for some months I’m rarely online to follow the development.

Stefan

Cheers,

Alberto

Just to let you know that you can replace the default keyboard (with that annoying right shift…) with the keyboard of an Eeepc 1000HE.

I’ve done this mod by myself, going from the standard S101 keyboard (IT layout) to the 1000HE keyboard (US layout). If you want to do that, remember to update your BIOS to the latest version available, otherwise some keys might not work.

Cheers,

Alberto (yeah, the same as #7)

1) I didn’t notice such a sound problem.

2) It takes 30 seconds from grub boot screen until I’m logged in, I’m using autologon in the moment. But I didn’t tweak much, you could speed up booting by building a readahead profile. There are some other ways to improve the performance, like setting the cpu frequency to maximal performance, disabling unused services and plugins.

Eeebuntu 3.0 could be faster. Though it’s available now I cannot install it because I’m on a cruise ship since 3 weeks, the slow satellite connection doesn’t allow me to download the installation file and needed programs, so I’m working with Eeebuntu 2.0 and I will upgrade in some weeks.

Stefan

I own an S101 too. I’ve installed Debian onto.

Just to know:

1) When using audio (mp3’s or videos) do you hear an annoying high-spike at the beginning of the reproduction? (someone told me that I need to upgrade the BIOS to fix that)

2) How long does it take to boot? (from power-on to gdm/xdm login screen)

Thanks!

I wanted to follow up, and let you know that by installing “linux-backports-modules-jaunty”, I fixed the wireless reconnect problem with my s101 w/ Ubuntu 9.04 NBR.

Also just realized that multi-touch works out of the box! Two finger click is middle click, and two finger drag is scroll…way cool!

there’s a lot of updated packages coming with TeX Live 2008. TL 2007 is running well, you could go the repository way if you don’t have high requirements. But the TL 2008 installation is really easy, not much more than starting the network installer and wait until it’s been finished. Btw. I’ve used the “create symlinks” option.

One thing that might not be so easy could be a problem with the dependencies: for instance Kile depends on texlive packages, it could be hard to install Kile without them. Texmaker just recommends texlive instead of requiring. But it would work, though it’s not clean to install TL 2008 just over the existing texlive-2007 system from the repositories (with symlinks).

Stefan