As of around an hour ago I have Fedora 12 running on my EeePc 1000HE.

For those of you that don’t know, pretty much no linux distro naitively supports wireless networking on the 1000HE out of the box. This is due to the rt2860 wireless hardware used by this model (and a few others I think). You’d think with the popularity of netbooks in general that they’d include drivers for it, as far as I know they’re stable, but anyway. Not that much of a big deal, you just need to enable 2 additional repos and yum install rt2860.

What this really means however is that I can finally get rid of that POS eeebuntu and use a real distro like Fedora*.

While I’m on the topic, when did KDE become such a sluggish, fat wilderbeast. I love KDE, and I remember trying out KDE 4 on openSuse a year or so back. It’s a shame that I have to degrade myself with gnome just to get a useable experience. Whatevs. Gnome 3 will be out towards the end of the year, and that looks really tight, so I can wait till then.

*For the record, Slackware is the only distro you should be using, but Fedora follows a close second.