[Cialug] Linux for Asus Eee

[chris rheinherren]

LOL
She doesn't know how burn an ISO to a CD/DVD so I think Arch is gonna be a
bit beyond her abilities right now.

On Wed, Aug 24, 2016 at 4:14 PM, Scott Prader <rigrunn at gmail.com> wrote:

> Depending on how technical your friend wants to get, ArchLinux might be a
> solution as well.
>
> https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/ASUS_Eee_PC_904HA
>
> Scott
>
> On Aug 24, 2016 3:51 PM, "David Champion" <dchamp1337 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> 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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