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I bought an eeePC last week, they have really restricted the linux OS, I am busy putting some build essentials so I can put any programs I want on - it comes with kstars but I have had some trouble loading stellarium.
I have just the 4gb version, and have another 4gb sd crd to slot in. I have found it actually runs reasonably quick, better than winXP on most systems.
I find it fun to muck around in the terminal - they have partitioned the drive so if you stuff up , you can reboot & reload the original software.
I will try & load gimp in the coming days to see how it performs.
I figure it's cheap to have outside at night, if i get dew/ drop it it doesn't matter. The kids work on it during the day and they have the small fingers to use the keyboard.
You can buy them with XP but apparently they are quite slow, you can easily upgrade the ram to 1gb, and there is a 3rd party selling touchscreen pack for $60 on ebay - that quite a few have installed via the eeeWiki
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