[Debian-eeepc-devel] eee box with debian

[obregonmateo at gmail.com]

Thanks Ben for the clarification.

Cheers.

Mateo.

On Saturday 29 November 2008, Ben Armstrong wrote:
> On Fri, 28 Nov 2008 15:58:33 +0000
>
> obregonmateo at gmail.com wrote:
> > Thanks for the replies ... which lead me to why the eee box is an eee pc?
> >
> > I would have though that it is a kind of eeepc 1000.
>
> The Eee PC family is characterized by being a line of netbooks made by
> a single vendor and sharing similar hardware. As such, it has hotkeys, a
> non-standard, small LCD display, special power management concerns, and
> so forth.
>
> By contrast, the Eee Box is a PC.  It shares a few devices in common
> with the Eee PC line, but the similarity ends there.  In all other
> respects it is just an ordinary PC.  Just like all other PCs that can
> run Debian, getting Debian to work properly on it should be very
> straightforward.
>
> Ben
>
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