[Cialug] Linux for Asus Eee

[chris rheinherren]

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
> > _______________________________________________
> > Cialug mailing list
> > Cialug at cialug.org
> > http://cialug.org/mailman/listinfo/cialug
> >
> _______________________________________________
> Cialug mailing list
> Cialug at cialug.org
> http://cialug.org/mailman/listinfo/cialug
>