Post ARSa9LcrHOxTKlNOTY by verb@ioc.exchange
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 (DIR) Post #ARSZ77irtrjNgHYy0G by paradroyd@mastodon.sdf.org
       2023-01-09T07:34:52Z
       
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       Huh..Ran across old my EEE 900 netbook while cleaning the basement today. To my surprise, it fired right up. Event viewer says last time I really used it was June of 2012. Looks like the battery is shot, but that's to be expected. It actually seems..fairly fast.I did not expect this.It's currently got XP on it. I might have to see what the modern options are (if any).#retrocomputing #eee_pc
       
 (DIR) Post #ARSZTZhaYPoEpPfbGa by paradroyd@mastodon.sdf.org
       2023-01-09T07:38:55Z
       
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       The EEE does a pretty good job of running the Intellivision emulator of it's era (Nostalgia). Seen here running Ice Trek.
       
 (DIR) Post #ARSZdSVk93ZHQBqIPQ by amatecha@merveilles.town
       2023-01-09T07:40:40Z
       
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       @paradroyd nice!  I have an old OLPC XO-1, of course with dead battery sadly.  also one of the RAM sticks has a bad [sector?] so whatever software I run on it crashes frequently.  tho IIRC some OSes allow you a way to indicate bad “blocks” in memory and not use them?  maybe?  heh, anyway, those Eee netbooks always seemed pretty handy at the time!
       
 (DIR) Post #ARSa9LcrHOxTKlNOTY by verb@ioc.exchange
       2023-01-09T07:45:36Z
       
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       @paradroyd Throw debian on there with a gui of your choice.I have an ASUS from 2014ish that still goes strong. Doesn't deal well with anything too memory intensive (4gb). But works great for streaming, chats, etc.
       
 (DIR) Post #ARSa9rkPqq18xT9shM by paradroyd@mastodon.sdf.org
       2023-01-09T07:46:34Z
       
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       @amatecha As far as I can tell, this one s fine, other than the battery.The internal SSD in these things has a hard 4GB boot partition limit, then 16GB more set up as a second partition. Even fitting XP in that 4GB was tight.Linux would probably handle this setup a lot better, but there aren't a lot of 32 bit modern distros, I think. I'm sure that there are some though. I'll definitely look into it.
       
 (DIR) Post #ARSaMW41mXXnTKMc76 by paradroyd@mastodon.sdf.org
       2023-01-09T07:48:49Z
       
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       @verb My first step was going to be booting Knoppix 7.x (or so) from USB and see how it worked.I dunno..I'll look into it tomorrow if I get some time.
       
 (DIR) Post #ARScCSZq5iINfbZlQW by sqeeezy@mastodon.sdf.org
       2023-01-09T08:09:26Z
       
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       @paradroyd I dunno about eee900 but void linux musl runs well on my Acer Aspire One netbook with a busted screen. 4 x USB and 2 x SD slots and it''s my music server and turns off when I tell it, not like my raspberry pi's which need me to get out of my control centre/bed and cut the power.