[Cialug] Linux for Asus Eee

[Jeffrey Ollie]

I'm not super familiar with the Asus Eee 904, but I personally would
not recommend that for someone's first experience with Linux,
especially if this person is relatively non-technical. From what I've
read it was relatively underpowered, even when it was introduced.
Laptops/netbooks are much more likely to have hardware that is poorly
supported as well.

I'd recommend sending your friend down to Midwest Computer Recyclers
and picking up a used desktop plus a monitor. They'd probably toss a
keyboard and mouse in for free. They sell desktops without operating
systems at a substantial discount over ones that include Windows.

That way you can install standard Ubuntu or Fedora on a system that
doesn't have poorly supported hardware, plus it has the oomph to not
disappoint performance-wise.

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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