Russell Coker <russell@coker.com.au> writes:
On Tue, 26 Feb 2013, Tony Langdon <vk3jed@gmail.com> wrote:
I've got an old EeePC 900 that I want to put back into service. It's currently running Xandros, but that distro is too old to be able to be maintained or to be able to install most applications on. I'm looking at replacing Xandros with something more modern.
I'm running Debian/Wheezy on my EeePC 701, it works quite well.
+1
Debian used to have special packages for the EeePC but the main Debian distribution has been updated to not need them. It just works for me.
These have been folded into mainline Debian, at least for anything as old as a 9xx. This is a "debian pure blend". If you're looking to buy beers, Ben Armstrong (SynrG) would be the primary candidate. That said, it's a fairly bog standard celeron + i9xx system, so for something like being a router, just about anything should by fine.