Version 0 of Asus EEE

Updated 2008-03-18 14:14:13 by VPT

The Asus EEE is an excellent machine (although I don't think the technology has arrived until these things last at least six hours, it currently is about 3-3.5). It has tcl already installed on it (8.4.9) but not Tk although that can be added with apt-get. If you add gcc and the other build tools you can compile the latest 8.5.2b from CVS. It didn't recognize freetype so the fonts were limited and ugly. However, after adding the following packages it recognized freetype and now looks good.

  • freetype-config
  • libfreetype6-dev
  • libxft-dev

I've also built an extension to use flite, the CMU text to speech synthesizer. VPT


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