Anyone know of anything fitting an Eeepc?
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Antix
i wouldn’t recommend debian since they’ve dropped 32 bit support in trixie, their latest release. the previous release, bookworm, still supports 32 bits archs, but it eol’s less than a year from now
This is not true.
They’re dropping support for i586 and below. 32-bit systems with i686+ processors will still run fine.
Since I doubt the latest and greatest drivers interest you, I suggest debian. Might as well profit from extreme stability and reliability
slackware, netbsd, openbsd
edit: i forgot tinycore, you gotta try that too
+1 for NetBSD it’s such a great OS for ressource limited platforms. Rough edges by today standards but it worth a try on OP’s PC.
Edit : would you please post something like neofetch screenshot when your eeepc is up and running ? :)
This thread is making me nostalgic for Ubuntu Netbook Remix
OpenSUSE has a 32-bit build.
Running modern web browsers is no fun.
I assume there will be a not too distant date in the future when Firefox ESR drops 32bit altogether…
My eepc is also 32 bit with 2gb of RAM. I did Debian 12 with LXDE from the net installer and it works really well.
Puppy, Porteus, antiX, Q4OS, Slax run on 32-bit x86 and are supposed to be under the 256 MiB RAM mark.
Zorin Lite and Xubuntu ~512MiB.
Mint, LXDE and Bunsenlabs ~1GiB.YMMV
Bunsenlab Linux…
Though don’t expect miracles, that cpu is too slow for the modern internet. It’s not usable for web browsing on any OS.
slow internet could make for a fun opportunity to play around with a text-based browser from the terminal like Lynx, w3m, and browsh.
I think it should be okay. I have a pentium M machine that did alright with web browsing on Bunsenlabs. Had 2 gb of ram. I used an original eeepc and an MSI u230 wind with the same cpu. The atom and pentium M are about the same
Debian. Just Debian. No drama.
MX runs fine, but applications such as browsers are very slow because of the old CPU 😐
I’ve had good luck with Antix on very old machines.
I loved my Eee PC so much.
I’ve been watching and hoping for a modern ARM equivalent, but haven’t seen anything quite right so far.
Something with LXDE or XFCE Desktop Environment, that is usually the DE for low-spec distros.
@ everyone recommending debian: it no longer supports 32 bit machines: https://www.debian.org/releases/trixie/release-notes/issues.html#reduced-support-for-i386
antiX
That said this machine will not be able to cope with the www of 2025.
