Anyone know of anything fitting an Eeepc?
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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
Antix,Debian ,arch i386 project
Since I doubt the latest and greatest drivers interest you, I suggest debian. Might as well profit from extreme stability and reliability
Debian has dropped support for 32 bit in Debian 13.
Use debian 12 then, again, its not like you need the latest and gratest
Debian Security Support ends in 9 months and the LTS’s supported platforms haven’t been announced. It could very well be that in 9 months the i386 version of Debian 12 stops getting security updates. https://wiki.debian.org/LTS
This thread is making me nostalgic for Ubuntu Netbook Remix
Debian. Just Debian. No drama.
Not Debian 13. https://www.debian.org/releases/trixie/release-notes/issues.html#reduced-support-for-i386
Also note that the Debian team uses i386 to mean what we think of by 32 bit x86, not just CPUs from the very old i386 generation. https://wiki.debian.org/i386
OpenSUSE has a 32-bit build.
Running modern web browsers is no fun.
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.
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.
Something with LXDE or XFCE Desktop Environment, that is usually the DE for low-spec distros.
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.
+1 for Gentoo
Gentoo will work if you have the time to work through the install, and stick with provided binaries for large packages (or have a lot of patience with updates).
I’m not familiar with Eee PCs but I’m assuming you’d want something lightweight. Q4OS has a 32-bit version available.
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