Xandros? The guy was very clear that it was PCLOS that came with his
eeePC. I hadn't even heard of PCLOS before that, so I downloaded the
distro and installed it on one system to see what it was like. Not bad
and the 3D-Mahjongg was fun, but I didn't see anything else about it
that was of interest to me. I can still boot it up but I'll blow it
away when I need another distro to run on that hardware (an old Dell
Latitude C600 laptop).

Checking back in my email, here's what he wrote back in March:

" Anyway, I like my Eee PC the way it is, running Linux. The "easy"
" mode designed into the system is, by far, the easiest system to use
" that I have ever seen. Anyone who has ever used a computer for
" more than a couple hours can start right out doing just about
" anything they wish on the Linux based Eee PC with no problems.
" Not so with XP, unless you have already used it.

and a few weeks earlier:

" Thanks to Scott, a fix was suggested: PCLinuxOS. As near as I can
" tell, this version of Linux looks and runs a lot like Windows, but
" without the Microsoft intrusions and rules. Also, Microsoft
" products, like Word, will run with PCLinuxOS. Better yet is the
" price: free.
" [...]
" By the way, I have the little Eee PC notebook computer which also
" runs Lunix. That was up and running 15 minutes after I got it home!
" Everything works perfectly and there was really nothing to learn.
" As soon as I hooked it to the Comcast modem, I was on line. The
" PCLinuxOS system isn't quite that easy, but almost.

I wonder if he meant OpenOffice (re: "... like Word")?

Double hmmm, looks like he installed PCLOS over whatever came with
the eeePC.