After reading the post on planetkde about KDE4 running smoothly on an aged machine, I was tempted to try it myself. Although the EeePC is far from old, its CPU/memory and graphics card are relatively low end.

I simply downloaded the latest KDE4 RC kubuntu live CD, and followed the instructions from the EeeUser wiki on how to make a "live" usb stick. A slight adjustment to the bios/boot order, installing the libgl1-mesa-dri package, and a short while later I was pleasantly surprised by the following:

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Was this the year of the Linux desktop? Dell, OLPC, Walmart, Chumby, and now this? (not to mention the slew of mobile Linux devices)

Today I got a friendly little package from Taiwan... Inside, I found the smallest laptop I've ever seen before. The Asus EeePC, preloaded with Linux (Xandros/Debian Etch) and KDE/IceWM.

Less than 1kg, solid state drive, and pretty good performance (900mhz/intel graphics) means that this little puppy will be my new carry-around laptop :)

Best part: *everything* works in Linux out of the box. Perfect suspend/resume, integrated webcam, and wireless support. Yay! Now I know how Mac users have felt for the last few years ;)

Of course, the community that has already begun sprouting up doesn't hurt either ;)

The keyboard will take some getting used to, but otherwise so far I'm very happy with it :)

Hooray for Linux, and hooray for companies finally starting to get it!