[PLUG] Eee PC 701

[Robert Citek]

I have an EeePC 701 with Ubuntu 8.01 that I haven't used in years.  It
was great for what it was back in the day.  But now it's a pretty
low-powered system and Ubuntu 8.01 was EOF last year.  Other than a
novelty item, the EeePC 701 may be not worth your time.

But be sure to let us know either way.

Regards,
- Robert

On Sat, Mar 8, 2014 at 5:30 PM, Wayne E. Van Loon Sr. <wevl at pacifier.com> wrote:
> My neighbor brought over a Eee PC 701 the other day. It had been
> purchased for his sister-in-law but she went kind of weird and had to be
> moved in some sort of weird care facility. He doesn't like the operating
> system on it and was wondering if some variant of Linux might coexist
> with the little 4 GB SSD (solid state drive) and 1 GB ram.
>
> He has seen Linux Mint 13 Mate and was hopeful. Looking around on line,
> I see that some of the newer distributions will not install on CPUs that
> do not have PAE (Physical Address Extension) and apparently some
> distributions are tuned to avoid wearing out the SSD.
>
> I also don't want to spend a bunch of time on this. Does anyone have a
> good experience / recommendation?
>
> Wayne
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