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I was looking at BashPodder as an option for Podcatching on the Zipit. Haven't tried it, but seems like it's right up the Zipit alley. Lightweight for sure. It was originally commandline based, but there is also an xdialog GUI for it.

I managed to get my hands on a Zipit Z2 Wireless Messenger after seeing blog posts about putting a full(er) featured linux distro on it. Many people were getting them from Target at discounted/clearance prices. Unfortunately my local Target did not have them so I picked one up on eBay for $50 shipped.

Before I even turned it on I got my Mini SD card ready with the autoflasher and had the Debian image next in line. It was extremely simple thanks to the work of many people. The Debian image comes with fluxbox and some basic apps pre-installed. Not content with fluxbox, I decided to try out OpenBox and some of the LXDE applications. OpenBox was an easy install with apt-get and worked out of the box (some config file options have since been changed to remove "decorations").
LXPanel
LXPanel needed some tweaking to get the Logout option changed. LXNM so far has given no love. It doesn't show any wireless networks or allow connecting, but does show status of the current connection. The battery status for LXPanel does not work since only APM (not ACPI) is available for the Zipit. I do have xbattbar installed, but it also has issues reading the correct battery percentage remaining, but you get a good estimate of battery life. I assume there are issues with the APM kernel driver.

I saw a lot of posts the other day about a live cd for Google's Android OS that runs on eee pc's/netbooks. I thought to myself "awesome! I'd love to poke around with a new OS." Unfortunately the iso everyone is posting about seems to only work on the Asus eee 701. I have the eee 1000H. When booting up from the USB drive I copied the iso to, it just sits at the LiveAndroid logo.

I decided to compile my own live cd for the 1000H. Over at Google Code there's a project to port Android to x86 computers (specifically the eee pc line). Following the directions they have worked well, but the download took about an hour and the compile took about 4 hours.

I run Ubuntu Netbook Remix on my Asus Eee PC 1000H but had a small issue with the Arduino IDE after install. The launcher I created would run but was only a white screen which confused me so I tried running it from terminal and had the same problem. Right clicking on the titlebar and choosing unmaximize would resize the window and make visible the proper arduino ide. After unmaximizing I could re-maximize and see the ide fine. To get around the auto maximize feature, try this: press ALT-F2, type "gconf-editor", browse to Apps >> maximus, enable "no-maximize".

This may effect other programs, but I haven't had any problems yet. Happy Programming!