Dear All,
I've tried installing the lazarus ide and the FPC on the eeePC and ... it works.
I've tried compiling the typical "button-turns-the-panel-red" demo and it also works.
(Sorry, no screenshots, too big for this forum :-(, you'll have to test by yourself.)
It's a minimal installation using only the standard Xandros from Asus, in order to minimize changes to the configuration (and get easy buy-in from the kids!).
Basically, installing lazarus 0.94 involves downloading the latest debians, and through dpkg installing them. Once done, using aptitude, resolve all package dependency issues, while preventing the tool from trying to remove Lazarus. libglib, and many other librairies will get installed. Once all librairies are up and running, just open a terminal (Ctr-Alt-t) and start lazarus (lazarus-ide &), and it's done.
A few minor quirks are still present, the biggest nuisance is the large height of the dialogs (compiler options, for one), compared to what is available. It would be nice if the dialogs could be reduced somewhat, maybe in Lazarus' future education version ,-). Anyway it's only a minor irritation, since using the alt key and dragging the dialog around, one can get to the whole dialog anyway.
Have fun.
Thierry