freesoftwaremagazine.com — I finally did it. I bricked my EeePc. I had just installed the Smart package manager and a subsequent reboot saw me stuck in, well, an eternal boot loop. Impulsive mixing of repositories always ends in tears. Argh! To rub salt into the wound I had mislaid the Xandros DVD to do a reinstall and I didn’t even have an external DVD drive to reinstall.