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Last night I met briefly with a friend who happened to have a copy of the latest release of Linux Mint on a USB drive, so I borrowed the drive for a few minutes to see if I could boot from it and run Linux on my Eee PC. I wasn’t really expecting much, but to my surprise it booted up flawlessly, thereby confirming my earlier ideas about using Linux on this machine. Mint, as I saw last night, works well. I’ve also noticed that the recent release of Fedora (the distribution I have used most over the years) comes with support for persistent Live USB key installations, which would be ideal. And, of course, there is also the ever-popular Ubuntu to try out as well. Choices, choices!

(Incidentally, the fact that this entry is being written while I am standing on a  relatively crowded commuter train on my way to work is yet another reason why I think this PC was a really good fit for my needs.)