Hey again,

Just figured I'd give an update on the Eee.  It rox!  It goes to work every day, plays good movies on the train (it's been snowing and icy here, so no motorcycle for a bit).  Skype video and Pidgen IM are working great, wireless is problem free, battery life rocks.  For the device itself, I have no complaints at all. 

But, I'm having a hard time wrapping my head around Linux.  I'm a tech weenie, which means I want to dig around in it's guts and customize everything... I want to use my phone as a 3G modem when I'm not at a wireless hotspot...  I want to be able to image the drive before I do stupid things to it and have to reinstall everything.  None of this is real easy with Linux...  Well, it might be easy for others, but not for this Linux n00b.  So, it's probably going to get XP tossed on it.  I just got an external optical drive so I can boot from an imaging CD and image the internal drive over to a thumbdrive or a USB hard drive.  I'll probably do that this weekend.  Then the next task is to get the original OS bootable from a thumbdrive.  Should be reasonably simple, but I can't figure it out yet.

Don't get me wrong, I'm not against Linux.  But, I need the Eee to do my bidding now, not in three weeks when I've figured out what config file to edit in order to get a bluetooth stack working or smthng like that.  Having the original Linux build on a bootable thumbdrive or SD card is the best of both worlds.  XP when I need to get stuff done, Xandros when I want to just use it and figure out Linux. 

If I find a relatively easy way to get it done, I'll let y'all know.