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eldamar

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From: Sweden

Registered: 2008-02-11

Posts: 104

Asus Eee Box

Hi! tonight my mediacenter computer with really old harddrives crashed, so i started looking for something small and preferably noiseless to have next to my HDTV to use as an mediacenter with xbmc or boxee. Then i found Eee Box from Asus, how easy would it be to configure this tiny machine with archlinux?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ASUS_Eee_Box

Rumor

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From: Albany, NY

Registered: 2006-07-07

Posts: 638

Re: Asus Eee Box

I'm running Arch on my eee 901.

There are two very large threads here in the forums in the Kernel subforum, also two indepth wiki articles here: http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Ins … sus_EEE_PC and here: http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Asus_Eee_PC_901

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qdiesel

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Registered: 2008-05-19

Posts: 61

Re: Asus Eee Box

i also have eee901 running archlinux and i have to say that eee box would be too slow for hdtv playback

eldamar

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From: Sweden

Registered: 2008-02-11

Posts: 104

Re: Asus Eee Box

Yeah i came to the same conclusion that it would probably be to slow, but there is a new eee box in development that i think would make it for hdtv playback?
http://www.asus.com/news_show.aspx?id=13626

So its basicly the same as configuring and eee901?

qdiesel

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Registered: 2008-05-19

Posts: 61

Re: Asus Eee Box

it uses hardware decoding on a ATi card so it would be basically the same under linux.