Comments on Cliff Hacks Things.: ASUS eeePC: First impressions and GPL violations

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2008-12-12T08:32:00.000-08:00

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I need a few keys for my eeepc 701 pearl white. My son is 2 1/2 and he somehow got my eee and peeled some keys off. Its not a warranty thing obviously but I wonder if you know where I could buy replacement keys, even used from some modder or something. I’m only missing two keys and a few of the spring things that hold them in, key mounts?

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I’m missing both brackets keys but have the mounts, missing mounts for O P and ” but have the keys.

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Hi Cliff! Thanks for the posts, I'm very much liki...

2007-12-13T13:17:00.000-08:00

Hi Cliff! Thanks for the posts, I'm very much liking the look of the EeePC. I'm also a Mac user and unsure of getting a Ubuntu/Windows box. I wont be able to afford the upcoming-Apple subnotebook so am debating asking Father Christmas for one of these machines. As a Mac user, how do you find the Ubuntu experience compares? How useful is the machine? My 12" PowerBook is giving up and this seems like a good replacement :)

I am a reporter tying to write a story about the A...

2007-12-12T16:12:00.000-08:00

I am a reporter tying to write a story about the Asus box and looking for owners of it; tabate@sfchronicle.com // email me a phone # to reach you if you have a thought top share. Thanks

Thanks for the review. I am thinking of getting 2 ...

2007-12-03T10:24:00.000-08:00

Thanks for the review. I am thinking of getting 2 of these.

My other laptop's a MBP. But, for portability's sake, there isn't anything else in the market that compares with this. So, am reluctantly ordering this.

Thanks to everyone who's taken part in this discus...

2007-11-30T16:37:00.000-08:00

Thanks to everyone who's taken part in this discussion so far. I encourage newcomers to read my later posts on the subject and comment there, after having seen the full story.

I also encourage anyone who's here to attack me or make the ironic accusation that I'm an overzealous Linux geek to save their vitriol for Slashdot, where it will be more welcome. Thanks!

Yeah, looks like that was the case.

2007-11-29T05:36:00.000-08:00

Yeah, looks like that was the case.

I liked EeePC the day I saw it and I also believe ...

2007-11-29T00:18:00.000-08:00

I liked EeePC the day I saw it and I also believe Asus are doing great on the market with it (Hey, Palm guys, see what you lost when dropped off Foleo?), so I was upset to read the story about the GPL.

Maybe its worth noting that the GPL actually does not require posting the source code on a public place (which is a common belief among GPL followers); it rather requiers the source code to be made available upon request to same parties which have been provided with the binary code (think what MySQL does in the last year or so).

Since I'm in touch with some guys at Asus, I sent a note to theior marketiung deparment and on the next day got back this:

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Announcement of combination source code & SDK news release is already posted on the http://eeepc.asus.com/en/index.htm

It is very important for this info.

Alex Huang

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I haven't yect check the code myself, but I hope we should count it as ignorance, not malice.

I like EeePC personally and I think the Asus guys ...

2007-11-29T00:12:00.000-08:00

I like EeePC personally and I think the Asus guys are doing a great job with it (maybe now Palm will realise what they lost when decided to drop off Foleo), so I was upset to read the story about the driver. I have some colleagues at Asus marketing department and I approached them on the suject. Here is what I got back:

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Announcement of combination source code & SDK news release is already posted on the http://eeepc.asus.com/en/index.htm

It is very important for this info.

Alex Huang

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I haven't checked it personally, but maybe these guys have fixed the issue?

Indeed, if you want to meditate about the spirit o...

2007-11-28T16:38:00.000-08:00

Indeed, if you want to meditate about the spirit of the GPL, ask Amazon how to recompile and reflash the Kindle.

Excuse me very much, I've done some mess.Another p...

2007-11-27T08:19:00.000-08:00

Excuse me very much, I've done some mess.

Another person have signalled to me Asus has released the source code:

Asus news

I noticed it's not completely true... the source code is available at that link only for eeePc 4G 7.01 :

Asus Support

Anyway at ftp site it's present all the source code:

ftp://ftp.asus.com/pub/ASUS/EeePC/

Anyway I don't know if the source code is correct, if the acpi_asus source code is correct and if compiling the kernel you'll obtain a working kernel, with acpi totally working (I'm not under Linux :-( and I don't have a eeePc)