Re: What old Linux distro to run on a old Pentium III PC?

rbowman <bowman@montana.com> wrote:

On 05 Jul 2025 09:26:18 GMT, St?phane CARPENTIER wrote:

Le 25-06-2025, c186282 <c186282@nnada.net> a ?crit :

On 6/24/25 10:44 AM, John Ames wrote:

The original EeePC was a bit anemic,

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   Not for THE TIMES.

 
Depends on what one hear by that. At the time, it was too slow to be
able to run the last version of Windows. So, it couldn't be called a
first class computer. On the same time, Ubuntu was running fine on it,
so it was enough for a day to day usage. And as everyone started to buy
it Microsoft started to be afraid and agreed to sell it with an obsolete
version of Windows.

 
The eee PC 701 originally ran Xandros.

Mine has a classic "Designed for Windows XP" sticker on it. It's
funny how the regular-sized sticker looks huge on the tiny laptop.

I doubt Ubuntu would have worked. I installed Q4OS. It took
several attempts when I got too greedy with the applications to
be installed.

Tiny Core Linux on mine. Works great. I choose lightweight software
anyway so no need to find alternatives except where packages aren't
available. With the maximum 2GB RAM installed Firefox is just about
usable, which is the heaviest program I use regularly. I bought it
cheaply second-hand not that long ago.

I had trouble with SSD giving errors at first, so I eventually
reinstalled to a partition on just the upper half of the disk and
it's working much better. Their wear leveling musn't have been too
good (maybe cause to look into one of these flash-optimised
filesystems but I'm not sure I can be bothered).

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