And I’m not going to gloat, but I still am having so much fun with my little eeePC 4g. I’ve already “rescued” the hard drive as I felt like I needed a clean slate after dumping so many things onto the 4 gb hard drive (which, by the way, was not a difficult process).

I think I decided that this was not my primary computer and that I didn’t need to trick out everything and install a lot of different linux distros…I still run the default Xandros light OS and have added some deb-based packages, but for the most part, I’m using the eeePC to access apps on the web (which, btw, I use Opera over the Firefox–Opera seems much more spunky).

Anyway, tonight I wanted to install Squeak (a FOSS smalltalk environment) and started with my usual Google of how to do it for the eeePC and the procedure is pretty much the same for other flavors of Unix/Linux: add a site to the depository, do a apt-get update and then install the deb. package. And Squeak is no different: I found the directions on the Squeak site and things worked as I wanted them to. In fact, I like this rendering of Squeak on the eeePC more than the one on my eMac (man, I have two computers that like that initial “e”).

So there it is: a low-cost, low-impact computer that can still be a very useful laptop.