[Cialug] Linux for Asus Eee

David Champion dchamp1337 at gmail.com
Wed Aug 24 15:33:05 CDT 2016


I think Mageia doesn't require PAE support for their default kernel. It's
also a good distro for beginners, has gui config tools for just about
everything.

https://distrowatch.com/table.php?distribution=mageia

-dc


On Wed, Aug 24, 2016 at 3:20 PM, chris rheinherren <c.rheinherren at gmail.com>
wrote:

> I have a friend that wants to try out Linux. They have an old Asus Eee 904
> netbook they are willing to use. It had Windows XP on it but its really
> slow when running that.
>
> I know that's a much older netbook. No PAE support for it (at least I don't
> think there is anyway.) Which means newer versions of Ubuntu and others
> wont run on it.
>
> Any ideas as to what would be some of the better distros for it?
>
>
> Thanks
>
> Chris
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