As of this weekend, I've demonstrated my complete "captioning at
lunch" workflow with the EEEpc. This was made a little more
complicated because my preferred tool is kphotoalbum, which is a
complex KDE application with many dependencies - which is normally not
a problem, but the one thing Xandros appears to have done for
themselves is a creatively stripped down KDE distribution, to reduce
the OS footprint... which mostly means that KDE binaries from Debian
etch don't work. I tried building it, but building the
dependencies was getting tedious (and the Asus source release still
seems to be missing a few changed packages, like libkexif1.)
After having the SDHC card fail on me after about 3 weeks heavy use --
losing nothing of value, but getting rid of the rathole of KDE-related
build trees, which cleared my mind as well -- I suddenly realized that
I had a much easier, even familiar, shortcut at hand --
debootstrap. I built a minimal Ubuntu Gutsy install on the new
flash card, chrooted into it and ran {{{aptitude install
kphotoalbum}}}... which installed 392 new packages, without any
particular effort on my part :-) I ended up doing a little tweaking
(which I'll document later) but that was sufficient to get me the
same kphotoalbum that I was running on the big machine, and
with a few symlinks, have my flickr tools Just Work.
So I'm up to the point of doing all of my "social" computing on the EEEpc as conveniently as I did on the T60p. It's even got better support for an external monitor. I'm now reminded, though, that one thing I actually did with the Oqo (a model 01+ that I used before getting the thinkpad) that I haven't done since is upload pictures to flickr, "in the field" as it were, through my phone. Since it's a GPRS phone, in practice my attention span will limit me to one or two really interesting pictures, but it should still Just Work, if I have all the pieces.
(Also, as sort of a "freebie", I have akregator (the KDE RSS
reader) installed in the chroot as well. With the reader set to keep
basically everything, I have plenty of tech blogs to look at even when
I'm offline.)