Yesterday I tried to install Slackware 12.1 on my Eee. The result was surprising for me, because it worked quite painless. I kicked Xandros from my Eee due to several reasons:
- I didn’t like the factory partitioning
- I didn’t like Xandros
- I didn’t like the “user-friendly” Interface (and I really don’t need it)
- I LOVE SLACKWARE!
There are some problems which have to be solved (WLAN/Boot-Up-Speed/…), but I’m quite optimistic.
UPDATE:
It seems like there are more people who would like to bring their Slackware installations on the Eee PC. I found this quite helpful page with some very useful information: http://slackeee.strangled.net
I will also give the lately released 2.6.25.3 Linux kernel a try because it should support my Atheros-Wireless chip natively via ath5k, which would be veeeery nice. Damn … got to sit in my workplace until 16:00 … can’t wait to try that stuff!
UPDATE 2:
ath5k unfortunately doesn’t work with PCI-E yet. Developers are working on it, so I guess I’ll have to wait some time … Fortunately everything else works fine (with madwifi wireless). Kernel boot-up is very fast (less than 15 sec) and the system seems very responisive. Nice …
Woohooo … even the ACPI events (voldown, volup, volmute) work 
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I’m getting so excited. I think I’ve tried every eee distro out there, even though I’m a slacker on my other PCs, because of troubles with the old madwifi and ndiswrapper and that silly atheros chip… but I saw early today that that slackeee page has a slim kernel and about everything a man needs…now I see you saying 15 second boot! (ubuntu eee was like 4 minutes boot on my 2g surf and slow after boot too, pclinux eee was only one that worked ‘out of box’ but I just can’t get into that distro and boot time could have been much better, pupeee was only sub-90 second boot but with slow developmment cycle and still really works like an alpha release with basically just a couple drivers added to an outdated version of puppylinux, etc. with 5 other eee versions that were alpha-like) All do respect to the EEE distros out there (I love their work and effort, particularly puppeee if it matures and pclinuxoseee if I can get into it some time), I can’t wait to plop slackware on my new high-speed 16gb flash drive and see sub-20sec boot times (my own stripped XP actually doesn’t do bad on the 2gb ssd at about 30 seconds from power to usb television watching)! Yall have me excited. Something about returning home to slackware always brings me an inner peace. (I would be really interested in seeing one of you slack geniuses put out a zipslackeee 12.1 that can be dropped on a bootable fat32(or even ext2) flash and up and running in minutes)