[PLUG] Distributions for an ASUS eeePC 1000

Roderick A. Anderson raanders42 at gmail.com
Wed Aug 15 21:20:01 UTC 2012


On 08/15/2012 08:49 AM, chris (fool) mccraw wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 14, 2012 at 9:00 AM, Roderick A. Anderson
> <raanders42 at gmail.com>  wrote:
>> I'm ready to move on from the customized Fedora 12 install I've been
>> using on my eeePC (with SSD drives and upgraded to 2Gbyte RAM).
>>
>> I've been fiddling with a F17-spins - LXDE, and XFCE - but feel my years
>> of working with Redhat based distributions starting with Redhat (3.0.3),
>> Fedora (Core 1), and CentOS (3?) might be limiting my experience. :-)
>>
>> Anyone have recommendations for distributions they've used or are using
>> on a eeePC?
>
> I use xubuntu on mine (also upgraded to 2g, but no SSD.  still runs a
> windows VM or two acceptably) with a lighter weight WM than XFCE
> (ratpoison--this is a great machine not to use the trackpad on!).  But
> then, i tend to put something on and stick with it forever, and you're
> clearly feeling the wanderlust, so maybe you should go with something
> totally wacky like chromeos?

Thanks Chris.  Not feeling whacky, feeling left alone since Fedora 12 is 
no longer supported.  I've been thinking of running some VMs (the last 
time was a _*long*_ time ago with VMware.

I'll give xubuntu a look.


Rod
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