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Well, I've been experimenting a bit more with distros for the Eee 701 4G and
eeebuntu Standard 1.0 from http://www.eeebuntu.org/ has now got my top vote, higher even than Slax 6.0.7. Installation is very easy and quite fast.

Everything works straightaway and if you like Gnome, it's a pretty comprehensive desktop installation. Wireless networking is smoother to handle than with Slax, and the Ubuntu and Debian repos can provide plenty of extra packages. However, it takes a lot of SSD space, and some judicious hacking of unwanted stuff is recommended (for me it was Compiz, the Avant Window Navigator, Evolution, OpenOffice.org extra language files, etc). Anyway, with all my usual extra productivity apps installed, I've got a reasonably healthy 800MB or thereabouts still to play with on the SSD.

Also, I've managed to clone the working installation to a USB flash drive too!

I'm going to do a little writeup of some Eee distros for my site http://appstogo.mcfadzean.org.uk which hopefully will be ready this weekend.

Hello Farcry,
Did you try Arch on the Eee 701 first? Just curious how it would work out. Also, have you tried xfce with eeebuntu?
Arch is alive and well here although I continue to use (and love) sidux on my primary / workhorse machine.
Keep us posted on your adventures.

@morux,

No, I didn't try Arch seriously on the Eee (though did some initial tinkering), mainly because there were just too many ifs and buts in the Arch wiki and forums regarding its installation. Also, while I'm happy to install generic Arch from scratch on a desktop machine and then clone it to 6 others, I'm not so wild about spending my time installing a special variant on one laptop (the Eee) and one only. The 7 Arch installations I maintain comprise 5 desktops and 2 laptops; 3 with Gnome 2.22 and 4 with KDE 3.5.9.

My Eee distros page on http://appstogo.mcfadzean.org.uk/ should be up later today, and will recommend eeebuntu, Slax and Pupeee, with pros, cons and tips. Hopefully it will be of use to someone!