eclipse on eee PC

Today I installed the Android SDK and eclipse (with the ADT plug-in) on my eee PC. Actually, I installed EasyEclipse Expert Java (easyeclipse-expert-java-1.2.2-2.tar.gz, 122MB).

The trick was the unpacking. I was unpacking 1.3.0 to my SD card which is a FAT partition and this was having the effect that the file permissions were coming out all messed up. At first I thought it was some compatibility issue with 1.3.0 and I tried again with 1.2.2 but got the same results. Once I unpacked to the internal flash drive (I ended up with 1.2.2) and renamed the jre sub directory in sub directory easyeclipse-expert-java-1.2.2 to jre_unused so that eclipse can use the system jre instead of the jre distributed in the download it worked.


I went through the "Hello, World!" tutorial which hung on me once (requiring a reboot). It took some tinkering with the Run setting to finally get the console to display the output but then it worked like a charm.


For those who wonder about performance I was listening to my mp3s while I was doing the tutorial and had Firefox opened as well reading the Sunday NY Times -- which btw featured a great article on GOOG vs MSFT in case you missed it.