Path: csiph.com!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: rbowman Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc Subject: Re: What old Linux distro to run on a old Pentium III PC? Date: 5 Jul 2025 18:23:51 GMT Lines: 20 Message-ID: References: <1031ot5$36t1$1@dont-email.me> <103386r$lpbg$3@dont-email.me> <1033rb4$2p1d$1@dont-email.me> <1033ugp$3aqu$4@dont-email.me> <10379no$19q5v$7@dont-email.me> <103bpuk$1am27$1@dont-email.me> <103c4km$1dc17$10@dont-email.me> <6868eea1$0$12928$426a74cc@news.free.fr> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: individual.net t3pNtF6+4HnLIehurqZ1WgKCvSDl41scsDP1ILo82YAAl1EbhJ Cancel-Lock: sha1:s5eAWtzAGig/7/PUpP1700aTGks= sha256:Buat93xMSQ/WzZfCipB6b+YU+0tXqv0/N7XDWjZJEgY= User-Agent: Pan/0.160 (Toresk; ) Xref: csiph.com comp.os.linux.misc:69372 On 05 Jul 2025 09:21:37 GMT, Stéphane CARPENTIER wrote: > Le 23-06-2025, The Natural Philosopher a écrit : >> >> To compare apples and apples the EEEPC was fine as just a GUI. It was >> when you wanted to use a web browser and email it collapsed in a >> fainting fit > > For a web browser, it depends mostly on the website which can be poorly > designed. For the emails, I don't see why it should be slow. https://www.notebookcheck.net/Asus-Eee-PC-701-4G.6745.0.html 512 MB of RAM doesn't give you much to play with and a 4 GB SSD doesn't allow for much swap. The integrated graphics used some of the RAM so there wasn't even 512 MB free. Despite the obvious limitations it was useful. With the SSD I could throw it in the motorcycle bag and expect it to live, and if it didn't I wasn't out much. In 2007 laptops were still relatively expensive and fragile.