I put Lubuntu 12.10 (Quantal) on, which works well. It has a simplified desktop option similar to the Xandros, but it can be switched to regular desktop as well. Installed from USB. ----- Original Message -----
On 26/02/13 4:59 PM, Russell Coker wrote:
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. I upgraded the RAM and have an encrypted SD card for /home but apart from that the basic hardware is fine. Wikipedia says that the 701 had 1G of RAM upgradable to 2G, my recollection was that it had 512M and I upgraded it to 1G but I could be remembering it wrong. So far, Debian is the distro that I'm leaning towards, with Ubuntu second. I might go down the Debian route.
For me, the 900 has 1GB RAM, and it fits a niche here - a low powered system that has a decent amount of RAM and as a bonus can easily run off my main DC supply. A new Linux installation should breathe new life into the EeePC. Only reason I stopped using it was it was getting harder and harder to install new applications on it, because of the old libraries and packages in the stock Xandros, and no updates were available.
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