[tlug] Overall H/W support for Linux on the Eee PC

[Dave Corning <dave@example.com>]

Hello tokyo linux users..

Long time (relatively speaking) lurker on this list, and I plan to  
come to the next meeting to introduce myself in person, but recent  
posts about the Eee PC and linux piqued my curiosity since I just  
bought an Ee PC 1000 (with xandros + 40 GB SSD) myself.

For those of you with Eee PCs out there, how many of you have had  
success with getting your hardware 100% functional on your  
distribution of choice.

While googling around for hardware support on my 1000, it seems that  
(at least in the case of Fedora 10) it takes a bit of fighting to get  
nearly everything supported, and wireless supposedly doesn't work  
after coming out of suspend mode.

While I'd love to have something that more closely resembles linux  
than the overly-user-friendly-and-simplified gui that ships with the  
1000, I also would prefer to have everything functioning perfectly  
every time.

Is it better to hack up xandros so that it more closely resembles  
debian, or is it better to put debian (or some other distribution) on  
there instead?.. Thoughts?

-dave