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. 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. I use my 701 periodically, whenever I need something better than an Android phone but lighter than a laptop I take it. It still works just as well as when it was new. But to solve the same problems now I'd probably buy a 10" tablet with a Bluetooth keyboard. -- My Main Blog http://etbe.coker.com.au/ My Documents Blog http://doc.coker.com.au/