November 16, 2007
2:14 pm

The Asus EeePC ships with Linux but with the help of an external DVD drive, it’s possible to install almost any OS of your choice, even Leopard with a bit of hacking but that comes with some legal issues that are discussed in that post.

Let’s face it, the Asus EeePC isn’t too terribly useful with the Linux install that it comes with, you can’t add applications to it until they are developed and the update installer is somewhat lacking. The first thing I did was wipe the hard drive and install Windows XP Home Edition but one user decided to install something else.

I wouldn’t have thought the EeePC capable of running Vista but according to the EeePC forums that’s exactly what one user is doing. To be fair, there may be more but this is the only one I know of.

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Asus, EeePC, Windows Vista, Windows XP, Linux, Operating System, Desktop, PC

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