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Re: What old Linux distro to run on a old Pentium III PC?

From rbowman <bowman@montana.com>
Newsgroups comp.os.linux.misc
Subject Re: What old Linux distro to run on a old Pentium III PC?
Date 2025-07-05 18:23 +0000
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On 05 Jul 2025 09:21:37 GMT, Stéphane CARPENTIER wrote:

> Le 23-06-2025, The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> 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.

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