This message on the Debian Eee PC mailing list reveals that Asus and Debian are working together, or at least planning to, on software for the Eee PC. This, presumably, means that future versions of the Eee PC could run a modified version of Debian, rather than a modified version of Xandros, as they currently do.
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capricornus
16 years 14 weeks 2 days 11 hours ago
Mepis7 Debian...
... runs on my Athlon2000. The cooling of my cpu hardly runs (while WinXP makes it run noisily all the time). Of all the LinuxOS'es, it is the quietest of all (and FF2 runs faster than FF3). So I can understand that Debian could be a good (and free) choice for the actual and future EEE's.