Which Linux distribution should I install on the Eee PC 700?

Question

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Yesterday Eee PC 2G Surf (700) fell into my hands . I want to put some adapted linux distribution on it.

The screen there is only 7 inches and a 2 GB SSD as a "hard drive". There is a lot of information on the Internet on linux on the EEE PC, but most of it is outdated (it tells about distributions whose last release was 2009, 2008).

I would like to hear the opinions and experience of habrausers and at the same time eeepc-users. What do you have? How comfortable is it to work? How sharp is the distribution for the Eee PC? Are there any problems with battery life? What special Eee PC software do you recommend?

Answer 1

I once put 98 Windows as a second operating system.
All 98 Windows took me only 98 megabytes (in a single container file DRVSPACE.000). But, for this, it was necessary to first format that 2 GB flash drive in FAT-16

Answer 2

Simply Linux?
quite intelligible human assembly.

Answer 3

I have a slightly more powerful machine, I put arch on it. Everything works great. The system occupies ~ 700mb.
When running gnome3, ~160MB of RAM is used. Basically you can live.

Answer 4

I installed jolicloud on my Eee PC 701 4G

Answer 5

I'm using Puppy Linux. The Eee PC 700 has such a feature - quite a lot of memory, and the SSD is small. So choosing a distribution that is small in size and works from memory is justified. There is a good assembly specifically for eeepc

Answer 6

I agree with Ice_venom, arch is just what you need... Something will slow you down - it's always easy to spit out, a good community, nothing more...

Answer 7

I have Arch with - all of a sudden - KDE4. At 4.6, however, a lack of resources began to be felt.
I solve problems with a lack of free space (I have 4G) as follows: 1) when updating the system, I transfer the directory with the
pacman package cache to the SD card
portable version and run from SD card. Or rather, for OOo, I didn’t even stop at the portable version, but at the assembly from Infra, which I unpacked to the SD card.

Answer 8

You can install the old version - when you only had your eee pc, they made several completely sharpened distributions, for example, Eeedora.
When I bought myself an eee pc 900, I pulled out configs and drivers from this distribution so as not to suffer with the settings myself.

Answer 9

I will describe my experience with the same laptop (2g).
I put arch from scratch, but I got sick of sawing. Patience was only enough to set up X. Then she abandoned it, so he lay idle.
Then I decided to put something ready. I tried everything that is possible. As it turned out, 60% of lightweight distributions are a reworked ubuntu netbook edition. Everything would be fine with her, but one cant - 2gb is not enough for her. And even if you select fewer installation options and software, it still says that you need at least some, I don’t remember how much.
I installed opensuse 11.1 full (as on the main laptop). Impossible to work =)
Result: simply linux. Iron picked up without problems, only one unpleasant moment: the login / password fields do not fit in the login window due to the screen size. That is, they are not. You know they are there, but they are not. Exit - you type login, enter, password, enter. =)
True, I still put the sd card on 8g so as not to suffer. On it /. On 2g - swap. For it takes about two minutes to load, so I put it in hibernate.
The system does not fly of course, but you can work.

Answer 10

My stepdaughter has the usual Debian Sid on EEEPC 701 4Gb, everyone is happy.

Answer 11

The owner of eeepc 1001px is now ubuntu 10.04
What I like:
all the drivers are grabbed from the box
unity is good for screens like iiiipisi
user'fiendly
Cons
is bubunta)
I tried to install fedora, it's also good, I tried "specialized" distributions for eeepc, I didn't quite understand what they are differ from mainstream distros like booboondot, except that they have a smaller user community and therefore support.

Answer 12

For me, the answer is obvious: Android is fresh (there is already ICS), it is installed without a tambourine and it works much faster than any of the above. And the software for it is just the sea.
By the way, here on Habré there was an article on how to attach a touchscreen to this laptop for 20 bucks .
Good luck.

Answer 13

I have an eeePC 701. Installed Arch. Glad.
Linux took up 2.5GB of a 4GB SSD, so there's still some left on /home...

Answer 14

ubuntu minimal+lxde