Well, if the intention of getting this little eee pc is to post to this blog more often, then I guess it’s a complete waste of money. In practice it’s kinda turned into rather an evening hog. Yes it’s small and I have mange to use it while up in bed without too many disparaging remarks from Mrs Grepppo, but in all other respects it’s taken up quite a bit of evening time to get where I am now,

And where is that, I here you ask….

Well so far I have:

1.configured a proper KDE desktop (easy)
2.got a new SD card to run apps off, found that the limitations of FAT mean that was impossible, then had reformat it to ext2 to make this possible
3.installed java jdk

This latter took most of the time and was painful. I guess I’m more used to Solaris and Red Hat forks (well Mandrake/Mandriva) so I thought that setting up a jdk would be just as simple as untarring the file, setting the paths and permissions. Bob’s your aunties live in lover …JDK.
Well it appears it’s not that simple, and Debian forks (such as Ubuntu and Xandros) expect thiing done in a certain way. Unfortunately the way I wanted to run the JDK off the SD card didn’t really fit in with this,

Well, I eventually managed to get my repositories to pull the jdk 5 packages via apt-get onto my precious hard drive space. So it works, but it still leaves a bad taste.

Next up, Postgres or MySql, and this time no apt-get.