...meaning didn't expect that SD card in the flash reader to be as fast as the SSD. My notion is if 80x can do 45sec what if I used a 150x or even 266X CF?JohnRoberts wrote:1. Got my Eee (4G/Surf) and it can boot from an SD card in 48 seconds, apparently similar as from the SSD
Mark is right, I think. Xandros does not have to look which modules to load...Mark wrote:And the xandros might not have a hardware-detection.
It has been pre-configured for single h/w to boot as fast as possible
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Besides the SmartLink, the WiFi dongle seems to respond. I don't have any AP nearby to test it, but the prism2_USB module is loaded as wlan0, there seems to be no conflict with the internal WiFi (it is not detected at all, that's a plus in this case...) and when I search for networks the dongle flashes...
There is one place in the center of the city where there is free, public WiFi access that I could test it. The AP there, is completely unlocked, no encryption whatsoever... I am not sure how to configure WLAN in the wizard... Do I leave the fields blank, or what? I did test on the spot with Xandros and it comes naturally. When you enable the internal WiFi you get a message that a wireless network is detected and just press the button "connect"...Any ideas?
Also which module should I load to enable the Ethernet connection?
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In Xandros, I installed gcc according to the instructions in the Wiki.
Is there an effective way to benchmark the system against a typical desktop? (I tried compiling & running one of my fortran apps that does cubic spline interpolation...It ran blazing fast, maybe even faster than my P4 desktop with Visual Fortran/Windoze ). Any actual numbers on MFLOPS/MIPS?
It would be really nice to have a taskbar applet (like in Xandros) showing NUM-LOCK, SCROLL-LOCK & CAPS-LOCK status. Especially SCROLL-LOCK is a must, since I'm using a twin keyboard layout...