If you really do need Windows, though, I would recommend Windows XP, as anything newer than that will almost certainly be too much for the EeePC to handle. The rest of this post will focus on Linux, although some of the information may apply to Windows too. After installing your Linux distro of choice, the next step is to choose a window manager. I was very wrong.
I wanted to find something new and lightweight, even lighter than LXDE. This wonderful blog post goes into detail about the idle memory footprint of various window managers, and ends with a graph comparing the results from around 30 WMs.
EeePCs are rather underpowered devices. This worked okay, but occasionally froze my entire computer. I fixed this by adding two gigabytes of swap space. If you use vim or emacs, then you already know what to do here! I decided that Geany had the feature set I was looking for.
To get Geany to look like this, I installed the Dracula theme from here, and enabled the Tree Browser and Git Change Bar addons from the geany-plugins package, which can be installed with apt. I also installed this plugin , which tells geany to request a dark GTK theme.
This one was an easy choice for me, since the image viewer I use on a daily basis is already very lightweight. Nomacs is a simple image viewer that does everything I need it to and more. I use Syncthing and the Nextcloud Sync Client to keep my files synchonised to both my other laptop and my Nextcloud instance.
I also use QOwnNotes to take notes that are automatically synced to Nextcloud, and therefore accessible from my phone. Just bear in mind that you should aim for subp resolutions for optimal playback. The Debian wiki has two pages on reducing your installation footprint. Have fun with your EeePC, and keep its limitations in mind! I used it with Linux since I bought it back in ! Some years ago I changed my Systems to Arch Linux. It runs fast and good on Xfce , but these days its hard to find a fast light browser with good security features.
This article helps a lot by choosing the right way to a good system. I hope to read more articles for EeePC here. Found my old h with 2 gigs ram the other day, put in a cheap ssd and have been playing around with some distros and apps to see if i can put it to any use. All the information I have found so far is out of date or above my understanding.
I figure every mhz will help so its worth pursuing. As some on the EeeUser forums point out, however, Xandros now actually owns Linspire the company behind CNR , so it would seem to be entirely possible that CNR support could be coming in a future version of Xandros, but that still doesn't explain ASUS putting the cart before the horse like this. All products recommended by Engadget are selected by our editorial team, independent of our parent company. Some of our stories include affiliate links.
If you buy something through one of these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. Update : After rebooting, you should update your package listing and upgrade your packages from the Ubuntu repository to get the most recent and secure versions of the software. There is a graphical utility to do this, but the command line commands for this are:. Because this machine is fairly old, most of the old, nasty driver issues are resolved in the current distros.
The rest of this page is devoted to some installation tweaks you may or may not find useful. The solution that I found deep in a support thread was to just get rid of network-manager. The wireless network can be started with the command "ifup wlan0" and stopped with "ifdown wlan0". Flash Player : The Adobe Flash Player is pretty much essential for anything other than the most cursory web browsing nowadays.
Download the ". TrueType Fonts : Linux distributions rarely ship with a robust collection of fonts, but if you have some TrueType fonts on a Windoze box, it's fairly easy to install them into the X window system from the command line. Copy the. The xlsfonts command lists fonts available directly from X and the fc-list command lists fonts available through fontconfig. The listing will likely be long, but if the fonts are loading correctly, you will see X font names like these for Arial and Garamond, respectively :.
Connecting a Projector or Monitor : There is a pin VGA socket on the right side of the machine that can be used to connect an external video monitor or projector. Usually the monitor will communicate with the card and adjust everything accordingly so connection is plug-and-play. If the monitor resolution is greater than the LCD, the automatic adjustment may expand the resolution beyond the height of the LCD display.
The external monitor will be fine but the LCD display bottom will be cut off. You may need to use the xrandr command to tweak the X rotate and resize extension. VGA is the external device.
If you have no device connected, you will not get a listing of VGA modes. If you are getting no external video, you may need to manually set the output mode. The xrandr man page describes the options. For example, to set the output mode to x Low Speaker Volume : The speakers in this machine are not very powerful, but you will need to use the alsamixer or some other ALSA-enabled mixer program to set the volume so that audio is at least audible.
There is no volume knob anywhere on the machine. Type "alsamixer" at a terminal to start alsamixer with curses interface. Use the arrow keys to adjust the controls. System Simplification Ubuntu has bloated significantly over the years, which not only makes the system more confusing to use, but reduces response time with this system's weak CPU.
The following are some simplification tweaks that gets rid of some of the bloat and makes it easier to see what your computer is doing. Text Login : I prefer to see what's going on with my machine rather than have the boot messages hidden behind the splash bitmap just in case there's a boot problem which used to happen alot.
This can be configured in the boot loader GRUB.
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