Robert Citek wrote: > I have an EeePC 701 with Ubuntu 8.01 that I haven't used in years. It > was great for what it was back in the day. But now it's a pretty > low-powered system and Ubuntu 8.01 was EOF last year. Other than a > novelty item, the EeePC 701 may be not worth your time. > > But be sure to let us know either way. > > Regards, > - Robert > > On Sat, Mar 8, 2014 at 5:30 PM, Wayne E. Van Loon Sr. <[email protected]> > wrote: >> My neighbor brought over a Eee PC 701 the other day. It had been >> purchased for his sister-in-law but she went kind of weird and had to be >> moved in some sort of weird care facility. He doesn't like the operating >> system on it and was wondering if some variant of Linux might coexist >> with the little 4 GB SSD (solid state drive) and 1 GB ram. >> >> He has seen Linux Mint 13 Mate and was hopeful. Looking around on line, >> I see that some of the newer distributions will not install on CPUs that >> do not have PAE (Physical Address Extension) and apparently some >> distributions are tuned to avoid wearing out the SSD. >> >> I also don't want to spend a bunch of time on this. Does anyone have a >> good experience / recommendation? >> >> Wayne >> _______________________________________________ Wayne,
I have a eeePC 1000 I am using to view the Digital Oregonion. Works just fine with Fedora 19. Small foot print makes it work nicely on the breakfast table. Ken _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
