Subj : Re: SSH on BBSes
To   : Nightfox
From : Spectre
Date : Wed Apr 20 2022 09:18:00

 Ni> I remember hearing about the Asus eee PC, but I never used one.  I don't
 Ni> remember hearing about it using Linux and selling really well though..  I
 Ni> didn't know that many people had been using Linux on a consumer PC.

I had a 701 which came with, ubuntu I think it was, I forget what the desktop
was... it was back at the Lenny release I think.  For what it was, it was a
good device. I primarily got it to hang off a video projector, and it coped
with that quite nicely.  There was a big "hacking" scene going on with
hardware mods for some time.  I did try windoze on it at one stage.. but it
was a genuine sluggard with that..

The initial 701, might have been the first version not sure, came with either
the first ATOM processor or a Celeron-D... I had the celeron version. My
biggest problem with it was keyboard death.. Still got the mobo here
somewhere.. the rest of it has gone to god.. used it to run web cams for a
bit.  All in all, I'd buy one again assuming they still existed, it was cheep
enough, just wish it was a little more durable.

Spec


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