For third time, I did full reinstall of EEEPC 900. And this time I decided to try . After very long installation, and post cleanup system seems to work rather fine.
Post cleanup naturally involved throwing away gnome stuff and firefox, after installing some better browser like opera. And for text editor, of course, lightweight and very capable gvim. And of course, modifying fstab to redirect tmp files into tmpfs.
After doing twhis, system seems to work rather nicely. I would say, order or magnitude better than M$win XP experiment. Win XP I had to try to do lots of magic tricks, since M$windows wants to write *LOT* under windows -directory, and trying to redirect those writes to ram drive was impossible in practise.