[Cialug] Linux for Asus Eee

David Champion dchamp1337 at gmail.com
Wed Aug 24 15:50:19 CDT 2016


When you install Mageia you can choose your desktop environment, you may
want to use xfce or one of the other lightweight ones. You can also install
multiple de's and switch between them at login like you can with Ubuntu.

-dc

On Wed, Aug 24, 2016 at 3:46 PM, chris rheinherren <c.rheinherren at gmail.com>
wrote:

> I was looking at the other lightweight Ubuntu (Xubuntu) version and saw
> that it required a PAE processor to work with it's current version. Lubuntu
> isn't bad either. It should work.
>
> And I'll check out Mageia too.
>
>
>
> Thanks!
>
>
>
> On Wed, Aug 24, 2016 at 3:33 PM, David Champion <dchamp1337 at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> > I think Mageia doesn't require PAE support for their default kernel. It's
> > also a good distro for beginners, has gui config tools for just about
> > everything.
> >
> > https://distrowatch.com/table.php?distribution=mageia
> >
> > -dc
> >
> >
> > On Wed, Aug 24, 2016 at 3:20 PM, chris rheinherren <
> > c.rheinherren at gmail.com>
> > wrote:
> >
> > > I have a friend that wants to try out Linux. They have an old Asus Eee
> > 904
> > > netbook they are willing to use. It had Windows XP on it but its really
> > > slow when running that.
> > >
> > > I know that's a much older netbook. No PAE support for it (at least I
> > don't
> > > think there is anyway.) Which means newer versions of Ubuntu and others
> > > wont run on it.
> > >
> > > Any ideas as to what would be some of the better distros for it?
> > >
> > >
> > > Thanks
> > >
> > > Chris
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