I came across some sites, which offer daily builds of Google's Chrome OS (Chromium to be precise, as the open source, community builds) carbon.hexxeh.net/chromiumos [caption id="" align="alignnone" width="307" caption="Chrome OS builds by Hexxeh"][/caption] www.thechromedaily.com [caption id="" align="alignnone" width="560" caption="The Chrome Daily"][/caption] After downloading the chromium.img file, it is easy to put on a usb stick (under OSX) 1. open Terminal 2. diskutil list (gives ID for your usb disk - e.g., X) 3. diskutil unmountDisk /dev/diskX 4. sudo dd if=/path_to_your_image/chromium.img of=/dev/diskX (this takes awhile) 5. diskutil eject /dev/diskX Ready to put the freshly created, bootable Chrome OS usb disk into the EeePC! The EeePC 900 boots fine the Chrome OS build, even the wifi is working, hurray! [caption id="attachment_156" align="alignnone" width="300" caption="Chrome OS Login"][/caption] [caption id="attachment_158" align="alignnone" width="300" caption="Chrome OS"][/caption] Nice looking, functional, beta... :) Check out the Chromium development channel at Google Groups.

Well, it is possible. Almost a fully functioning little machine running OSX. ...and since I have a family license (5 pcs) for Leopard I decided to try. In my opinion the so called retail install is a much more elegant way of installing OSX on not Apple computer (still the legality is questionable), but the EeePC 900 has a Celeron processor and retail install disk just simple does not work. The most important thing to note is that the wifi card in the 900 is less then supported, so it is a good idea to swap it for a real Apple Airport wifi card. Other than that the machine works fine (also the os needs to be installed onto the secondary 16 GB SSD, because the primary is only 4 GB), unfortunately the 16 GB SSD is way slower that the 4 GB. It is really a good idea to upgrade it to a bigger and foremost faster SSD (RunCore seems to be a good choice). The installation: 1. Grab the iDeneb installation disk (it is available thorough the net, but if you decide to keep the installation, please go to Apple and buy a Leopard install disk), I tried the iDeneb v1.4, 10.5.6 2. Install ...

The first public Alpha 1 release of Haiku is out! :) ISO, RAW and VMWare images. Until I actually write a longer post about Haiku running on the EeePC 900, here are some screenshots: Battery Applet: Battery info: And of course I posted from Haiku, sitting in the garden, connected with wifi and carefully watching the battery applet showing still 20% left. :)

Installation of the unreleased XandrOS 1.7 is the same as in my previous post for 900. Updated software after installation of the OS: Firefox 3.5.2 Yes, with latest Flash at present: Thunderbird: KTorrent in action (with dock integration): Newly installed software in Internet Tab: Installing gFTP:

Browsing the Eeeuser forum I found an interesting thread about an un-announced (and unreleased) OS build, which looks like a 1.7 beta or something similar.According to the source of information, the iso could be downloaded from here. Look for EeePC_1.7-2009-01-20_09-52.isoI decided to try it on the EeePC 900, which I barely use anymore. Created an installable usb image from the iso with unetbootin, and installed the 1.7 beta.Interestingly enough it seems to support a wast amount of different EeePC versions (from 700 upto S101, including my 900 as well).First I tried the uncompressed installation but it did not boot, so I went for the compressed image (which is a but slower according to the install information)And it works... :)The default "skin" of the 1.7 build is nice:And the very nice thing is that finally it has Firefox 3... (ok, still only 3.04)So far it seems to be stable fro browsing via wifi connection. Worth to try.Also, upgrading Firefox to the latest 3.5.2 was much easier than before. just downloaded Linux binary and extracted into the XandrOS firefox install directory under /opt (carefully without the plugin directory which was actually a link).Final note on tweaking, the keyboard: since I use a ...

I use the Option icon225 3G modem almost every day (whenever I am on the move, without wifi coverage), so it is always the first thing to make it work... also on the S101. As posted some time ago, this device works excellent with any derivative of ubuntu, so I expected a fast setup. Well... following the good old How-To posted at www.pharscape.org did not disappoint me... quickly... :) After the install procedure the S101 connected to the net but after some minutes unexpectedly the machine was hard locked... no mouse, keyboard, whatsoever... :( Looked like a nasty module, which froze the tiny EeePC... and it was easy to guess that something was wrong with the hso.ko module, which supposed to make the Option icon225 modem talk to the internet... After some google homework I found out the stock ubuntu 8.10 does already contain the hso.ko module (apparently version 1.2) and I installed v 1.6 Something was dead wrong... :( I discovered, that for some funny reason the original hso.ko module was in .../kernel/drivers/net/usb/ while the newly compiled and installed v 1.6 was put into: .../kernel/drivers/net/wwan/ Interesting... and the v 1.2 loaded and locked down the machine... So I removed the old one and run depmod... started again the HSOconnect program ...