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. What do people suggest as options? Most of the info on the net that I've found seems rather dated (2009 or so) -- 73 de Tony VK3JED http://vkradio.com
I'm pretty sure mine (an EeePC 900) has Ubuntu 10.10 on it, only because it started to not boot from USB and I never got around to investigating why. That said, the EeePC hasn't seen the light of day in probably more than a year but it ran ok when it did. Michael On Tue, Feb 26, 2013 at 2:36 PM, 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.
What do people suggest as options? Most of the info on the net that I've found seems rather dated (2009 or so)
-- 73 de Tony VK3JED http://vkradio.com
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On Tue, Feb 26, 2013 at 2:36 PM, Tony Langdon <vk3jed@gmail.com> wrote:
What do people suggest as options? Most of the info on the net that I've found seems rather dated (2009 or so)
I'm running the latest opensuse (12.2) on my 901 without any issues. Planning to upgrade to 12.3 when it comes out in a few weeks. -- Marcus Furlong
Marcus Furlong wrote:
On Tue, Feb 26, 2013 at 2:36 PM, Tony Langdon <vk3jed@gmail.com> wrote:
What do people suggest as options? Most of the info on the net that I've found seems rather dated (2009 or so) I'm running the latest opensuse (12.2) on my 901 without any issues. Planning to upgrade to 12.3 when it comes out in a few weeks.
Two questions : 1/ Any idea in what respects a EeePC 901 , differs from Tony's EeePC 900 or my EeePC 900A ? 2/ Were there any driver issues ? regards Rohan McLeod
On Tue, Feb 26, 2013 at 3:42 PM, Rohan McLeod <rhn@jeack.com.au> wrote:
Marcus Furlong wrote:
On Tue, Feb 26, 2013 at 2:36 PM, Tony Langdon <vk3jed@gmail.com> wrote:
What do people suggest as options? Most of the info on the net that I've found seems rather dated (2009 or so) I'm running the latest opensuse (12.2) on my 901 without any issues. Planning to upgrade to 12.3 when it comes out in a few weeks.
Two questions : 1/ Any idea in what respects a EeePC 901 , differs from Tony's EeePC 900 or my EeePC 900A ?
This might help: http://www.hohndel.org/communitymatters/eeepc/eeepc-900-vs-901/
2/ Were there any driver issues ?
None at all. Audio, chipset, camera, suspend, video, wifi, network all work. Even the extra buttons on top of the keyboard work without configuring anything. Regards, Marcus.
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/
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.
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. -- 73 de Tony VK3JED http://vkradio.com
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.
-- 73 de Tony VK3JED http://vkradio.com
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Thanks for all the replies on this thread. At this stage, I think I'll go with Debian. One of the things I want is a relatively mainstream distro that is likely to be supported by third party binaries, as well as source. I know Debian is supported by a number of the packages I'm like to use. Ubuntu would be the second choice for similar reasons. I'm not sure how I'd go with some of the other netbook specific distros. Sure, I can compile from source, but with the frequency of some updates, that just adds compilation time and management overheads, which I'd rather avoid if possible. I know pretty much everything I'm likely to run on the system has Debian packages available, and since Debian seems to be suitable these days out of the box (going by the replies in this thread), that would seem to be my first port of call. -- 73 de Tony VK3JED http://vkradio.com
I've got an old EeePC 900 that I want to put back into service.
Fedora 17 lxde no problems On Tue, Feb 26, 2013 at 3:36 AM, 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.
What do people suggest as options? Most of the info on the net that I've found seems rather dated (2009 or so)
-- 73 de Tony VK3JED http://vkradio.com
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