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. :)

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 installed ubuntu-eee on the EeePC 900... for a simple reason... it has a nice and functional user interface, Netbook Remix from the makers of Ubuntu, Cononical. since ubuntu is a nice and uptodate Linux distro, it was worth to try... and ubuntueee installed flawless on the EeePC 900. a more in-depth installation instruction will follow, however the main reason for the little challenge was to see how KDevelop runs on the EeePC 900. well... I need to test ubuntueee and Kdevelop, but it might even turn out that I will keep ubuntueee as the primary (or only) OS on the 900.

and yes... my Hungarian keyboard (ordered from asusparts.eu) has arrived today... it is still a shame that local distributors can not supply a replacement keyboard for the EeePC, which they sell.it was an easy task to replace, straightforward, 3 minutes job.after the physical replacement, the remaining issue was to reconfigure the X windows manager (sudo vim /etc/X11/xorg.conf)"us" needs to be changed to "hu"save the file and quit vimthe windows manager needs to be restarted (either Ctrl Alt Backspace or reboot the EeePC if you like)and voilá... the famous Hungarian sentence, which contains all accented characters:thats it!

well... why would anyone install the 901 Restore DVD and its OS onto the EeePC 900? lets start with this picture: is it a good enough explanation? :) since I bought my 900 from Taiwan, it obviously came with Chinese restore DVD... of course the default system language could be changed as described in the wiki, but it is highly unpractical. and getting a localized restore DVD (from asusparts.eu costs around 10 EUR and 3 weeks to deliver - this later one is the real pain actually) before we start it is highly advise to backup the content of the /home/user directory and copy to a usb drive the following files and directories (we need them later) - /lib/modules/2.6.21.4-eeepc/net/ - /lib/modules/2.6.21.4-eeepc/atheros (these are the drives modules for the ethernet and the wifi) so, lets put the 901 restore DVD into a usb DVD drive, connected to the EeePC 900 and wipe out the original system... the restore itself is self-explanatory and after some 5 mins, the little EeePC boots into the freshly installed OS v1.6.1 much better... :) of course the About page is as nice as it could be... software version 1.6.1.36 build date 22/07/2008... nice... :) OK. back to work... there is still much tweak to do in order to get ...