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  • Re: Cracked cases

    From knightwise@VERT/BEERS20 to Moondog on Thu Jun 9 11:38:00 2022
    Boy I remember those EEE pc's. I got one for my wife's grandma when she turned 75. It was delightful to see here enjoy that little computer.

    Netbooks were something of a step too soon. We didn't have operating systems back then that could honestly support it. Take a modern day chromebook and shrink it down, you have a perfect EEE pc.

    I still have my 701 in my upstairs attic. Believe it or not .. it still works.

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  • From Moondog@VERT/CAVEBBS to Grimpen on Fri Jun 10 20:35:00 2022
    Re: Re: Cracked cases
    By: Grimpen to MRO on Thu Jun 09 2022 06:09 am

    MRO wrote to Dr. What <=-

    Re: Re: Cracked cases
    By: Dr. What to MRO on Mon Jun 06 2022 09:19 am

    First, the Asus eee PC comes out (7" display) - Linux only because Micros wanted $100 for a Windows license - which would have doubled the cost of machine.

    i was watching, i didnt see any of that stuff you are talking about.

    I think those were the very first Asus 700 eeePC's. They had "Xandros" Linu IIRC.

    -G

    Yes, it had a strange name like Xandros on it. I replaced it with Ubuntu.
    At first there was a problem with driver support in linux for the broadcomm wireless it had built-in. NDISwrapper worked ok, then drivers appeared soon after in the repositories


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  • From DaiTengu@VERT/ENSEMBLE to Ron Lauzon on Wed Jun 15 08:03:09 2022
    Re: Re: Cracked cases
    By: Ron Lauzon to Moondog on Sun Jun 05 2022 04:04 pm

    I could've sworn most Asus netbooks shipped with linux, if they
    didn't ship with XP Lite.
    But some people bought the Windows version to get the extra memory, then installed Linux on that.

    Yep,I did that. I ran across my old Asus EeePC the other day. I can't find the power cord though, but I wanted to see if I could still run something Tiny Core Linux, Puppy Linux, or even Mint. I'm pretty sure I bought it back in 2008 or so.

    DaiTengu

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  • From MRO@VERT/BBSESINF to DaiTengu on Wed Jun 15 09:14:28 2022
    Re: Re: Cracked cases
    By: DaiTengu to Ron Lauzon on Wed Jun 15 2022 08:03 am

    Re: Re: Cracked cases
    By: Ron Lauzon to Moondog on Sun Jun 05 2022 04:04 pm

    I could've sworn most Asus netbooks shipped with linux, if they
    didn't ship with XP Lite.
    But some people bought the Windows version to get the extra memory, then installed Linux on that.

    Yep,I did that. I ran across my old Asus EeePC the other day. I can't find the power cord though, but I wanted to see if I could still run something Tiny Core Linux, Puppy Linux, or even Mint. I'm pretty sure I bought it back in 2008 or so.


    i used to take mine to work and mess with it when i took a dump.
    that was before smartphones were so popular.
    i also had one with a great speaker system and i'd play my music through it. ---
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