Eclipse on Eee PC

By Martin  on November 24th, 2007
4 Comments

I’ve had my Eee for a few days now and just tried to run Eclipse on it. For fun as an experiment, to see if it works. I will probably never do any Java developement on this tiny machine but it does work, without problems although I haven’t tried any project of size. Anyway, here’s what it looks like. I kept some common views open so you can see how that looks like but hid the toolbar, with the toolbar it got a bit too cramped. In the second screenshot the appearance is set to the excellent Extended VS Presentation plugin.

Eclipse on Eee PCEclipse with Extended VS Presentation on Eee PC

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sid
May 26, 2008

Nice to know, I was just about to download Eclipse PDT (for PHP) and run it on my EEE PC :-)

bonny
July 9, 2008

Anyone gote some experience to tell us about the practical use of eclipse on the eee? Is it really an alternative to a notebook? I d like to use eclypse on my eee in java programming class….

Martin
July 9, 2008

I wouldn’t buy an Eee to use for any serious programming. It’s suitable for surfing the web, email and reading documents and taking notes. It’s small and light so it’s perfect to carry around, you don’t have to think “do I really need a computer with me today” - you can just bring it. The size is pretty much like a VHS cassette(if anyone remember those).

For programming on the road, for me a ~13″ laptop is ideal. Small enough, light enough, have full size keyboards, usually good screens. A lot more expensive though.

The Eee is great, but for a developer it’s not to use as main computer.

Martin Packer
July 25, 2008

For me the EEE is fine for programming - particularly at 35,000 with those nice tight-pitch seats in Economy. :-)

But the keyboard is the one thing I find quirky.

Actually there’s a ton of free software preloaded on the EEE - that somehow got by under the noses of the ASUS Marketing folks. :-)

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