[Cialug] Linux for Asus Eee

[Scott Prader]

Haha, Figured I'd throw it out there for completeness.  Someone else might
find it useful.  If nothing else, the wiki has good documentation that can
useful in a cross-platform aspect.  Have fun!

On Aug 24, 2016 4:17 PM, "chris rheinherren" <c.rheinherren at gmail.com>
wrote:

> 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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