[Chester LUG] Linux on an ASUS?

[Paul Williams]

Hi Mark,

I have 2 eeepcs and my mother has another.  It would help to know the spec on yours.

My eeepc is the 904HA (1.6 atom processor, 2Gb RAM (upgrade from 1Gb supplied), 160 Gb hd).  I run Ubuntu 10.04 from it with no problems.  

My older eeepc was the 700 ( 800Mhz Processer underclocked to 500ish Mhz, 512 Mb RAM, 2Gb ssd).  Default Xandros worked but was awful.  Other linux attempts needed to install to a 4b SDHC card.  They were slow and clunky.  My wife currently runs XP on it.

My mother's eeepc 900 (900 Mhz Processor, 1Gb RAM, 12 Gb ssd)  The drive is a 4 Gb drive running XP and an 8Gb drive running Linux.  It took me a while to find a distro that wasn't painfully slow or totally naff on it.  If it looked lower tech than XP, she wouldn't use it.  It currently runs Linux Mint LDXE.  It runs faster than XP.

If you tell me the spec on your eeepc, I can advise you and help you through the install if you want.

Paul


> Date: Mon, 20 Sep 2010 11:08:00 +0100
> From: mark_kh at tiscali.co.uk
> To: chester at mailman.lug.org.uk
> Subject: [Chester LUG] Linux on an ASUS?
> 
> hi folks
> 
> Some years ago I went along to a few of your Linux meetings in Chester, but 
> haven't been for quite a while.  When I attended, I brought along my (then) new 
> ASUS901, but there really wasn't any opportunity to do anything with it.  Since 
> then, it has been getting more and more painful to use.  A friend who also has 
> an ASUS says the installed operating system is rubbish and had a proper version 
> of Linux installed, with the result that hers now works much better.  
> Unfortunately, she now lives in France, so can't help me much.  I've looked at 
> a few web sites describing how to install Linux and they talk of creating a 
> bootable disk on an existing Linux sysstem.  As I don't have one, I'm not sure 
> how to proceed.  My friend said that her system was loaded from a USB stick.
> 
> Question is; has someone in the local Linux group already done this and could 
> I avail myself of the service?  I'm afraid I've no experience using Linux 
> (apart from the bowdlerised version on the ASUS) so need guidance.  I'm not 
> sure I'd be able to do it myself, unless there were very comprehensive 
> instructions.
> 
> thanks in anticipation
> Mark
> 
> 
> 
> 
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