Hi all.
I recently resurrected (broken power connector) an old EEE PC Model 1005HA. It's a 900mhz 32bit only Atom processor and shipped with a 160gb drive and 1gb of ram. Only one ram slot, but after I got it working, I scraped up a 2gb dimm for it. It shipped with XP and its still running it. HDD is good, even the battery is still good.
Might stick a used 240gb SSD in it which will likely improve the performance somewhat.
However it's getting very difficult to find a browser that somewhat works on it. I'm using the last version of Opera right now and it's fair to say its not happy on some sites.
2gb would run Win 7 although a bit slowly, but that's unsupported as well so not really helpful.
So... the obvious alternative is Linux... but which one? First, forget anything that's command line only. I want it to have a gui because I REALLY hate editing text with user angry text editors... I'm over it.
So, I'm asking the experienced out there for recommended 32bit Linux distributions that would be worth a try. Unfortunately, Linux seems to have dropped the 32bit ball of late so not sure if there are any maintained distros still out there and if they're built for Atoms, presumably X86 will work. No point putting an old distro on, I'll wind up with the same issues.
So I'd be pleased to hear of any suggestions. I have a lot of older hardware, mostly still in perfect working order that might also benefit from this, both 32 and 64 bit with limited memory so it's an area I'd like to really get into.
Thanks for your time.
Regards
GeoffinOz
I recently resurrected (broken power connector) an old EEE PC Model 1005HA. It's a 900mhz 32bit only Atom processor and shipped with a 160gb drive and 1gb of ram. Only one ram slot, but after I got it working, I scraped up a 2gb dimm for it. It shipped with XP and its still running it. HDD is good, even the battery is still good.
Might stick a used 240gb SSD in it which will likely improve the performance somewhat.
However it's getting very difficult to find a browser that somewhat works on it. I'm using the last version of Opera right now and it's fair to say its not happy on some sites.
2gb would run Win 7 although a bit slowly, but that's unsupported as well so not really helpful.
So... the obvious alternative is Linux... but which one? First, forget anything that's command line only. I want it to have a gui because I REALLY hate editing text with user angry text editors... I'm over it.
So, I'm asking the experienced out there for recommended 32bit Linux distributions that would be worth a try. Unfortunately, Linux seems to have dropped the 32bit ball of late so not sure if there are any maintained distros still out there and if they're built for Atoms, presumably X86 will work. No point putting an old distro on, I'll wind up with the same issues.
So I'd be pleased to hear of any suggestions. I have a lot of older hardware, mostly still in perfect working order that might also benefit from this, both 32 and 64 bit with limited memory so it's an area I'd like to really get into.
Thanks for your time.
Regards
GeoffinOz