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@tg9541 nice. @katyswain and I used to have the same or very similar. I remember posting and reading status.net and identi.ca posts on it.

#eeepc

Not bad as a remote terminal.

#guix #eeepc #atom #oldschool

Neofetch runned on an old Atom based Asus EEEPc with Guix installed.

@micr0 yes.

An #EeePC 900HD and a retail box of Windows Vista Ultimate (just the double-curved plastic shell!)

@aks yeah, I think #Linspire needed to walk for #EeePC to run!

Thx to @TechTangents for that video!

Who else remembers when #PC|s were ≤299?

Sometimes I miss my little eeePC. I did 90% of the Cumberland edition of Uresia on that thing, including page production, indexing, cartography etc.

It was about as powerful as a wristwatch calculator strapped to an Etch-a-Sketch but it was so small I could carry it around in an old camera bag instead of a laptop case.

As with all my machines, I used it 'til it gave up the ghost. 🫡 It lasted like 8 years of constant use.

#UresiaRPG #TTRPG #eeePC

This was WILDLY difficult to make happen.

Wouldn't render properly in Wine
Wouldn't run in a Windows 98 VM

I ended up copying the .scr from the VM to a USB key (which involved mounting a qcow2 file which was easy but not straightforward) so I could run it on a Physical, Period Correct, eeepc.

#retrocomputing #wine #linux #windowsxp #windows98 #eeepc

As far as I know there are still a few Eee PC's in use on the Anglo-Australian Telescope at Siding Spring Observatory (https://aat.anu.edu.au/).

I took this photo of the telescope's Cassegrain Acquisition & Guiding Unit (AGU) in 2018. There's a white Eee PC velcro'd to the steelwork on the right, which was (and quite probably still is) used to run the Cassegrain acquisition camera.

These days if you wanted a small, inexpensive computer to run a USB astronomy camera and integrate it into a bespoke telescope control system you'd use an SBC like a Raspberry Pi, but netbooks predate the Raspberry Pi by about 5 years so there was period of time where using a tiny laptop for something like this made sense, even if you didn't need the display, keyboard or battery.

#Astrodon #Astronomy #Telescope #EeePC #Netbook #Retrocomputing

Photo of a large piece of vaguely industrial looking machinery, with lots of electronic devices from different eras attached to it. One of these is a white Asus Eee PC netbook, closed and attached to the structure with velcro.

@cleantext I mean, lets be realistic: #Netbooks that struggled to run #WindowsXP ain't something people were crazed about (besides the excellent #EeePC which came with it's nicely customized #Xandros-based #Linux desktop that put the 7" 480x800px screen to good use!)…

OFC one would today rather pick a #Pi0 v1.3, #Pi0W or #Pi0W2 which are all faster, more power efficient and cheaper instead of hardware (soon) old enough to legally buy liquor in Germany.

Not to mention being able to basically run everything off 5V makes it trivial to "outsorce" the "power problem" to some cheap USB powerbank with multiple ports.

So yeah, "#Ghettohacking" a #Laptop that can even do a #GUI is cheap and relatively easy these days...

I decided to tidy up my “cable and hardware box” today. I managed to part with a bag of cables, only those that I had many multiples of mind you 😂.

I also found my old Eee PC (901 I think). Does anyone have any ideas what to do with it? I believe it has a version of crunchbang Linux on it at the moment.

#eeepc #linux #tech #oldtech

Il est pas mignon mon petit #eeepc901 sous #alpinelinux ?
C'est pas le top du top mais c'est utilisable
#linux #oldcomputer #eeepc #xfce4

Oh no! My little Asus #EeePC seems to have died. It powers on but there’s no display. Can’t say I used the computer in recent years aside from once every couple of years to update Ubuntu on it. It can’t even play an HD video even though it claims to be powerful enough.

It was originally outfitted with a spinning HDD which I replaced for an SSD. Even then it machine would still be very slow. Still, it was a fun little computer to use!

@MichalBryxi @SecurityWriter @MastodonEngineering I agree to an extent.

Yes it is a failure of us who are #TechLiterates to increase #TechLiteraxy but it's also a failure of #education globally to teach anything but being a "#User" who's ignorant beyond mousing #Microsoft products. (See shitty certifications like #ECDL!)…

It's sad that #Xandros on the original #EeePC seems to be peak #Linux #Desktop when it comes to #TechIlliterates...

And that needs to be changed…

Installing AntiX on an Asus eeePC from 2007, now in 2025. AntiX install was much smoother than a few years ago. Just followed the tutorial on their website.https://antixlinux.com/ I didn't even have wifi issues. Just remember to connect to wifi during live boot sesh and check 'save live' during install. Not exactly sure what It can do. Maybe some light writing and offline use? Hook it up to an external HD for backups? A WIX server?

What do you do with your old netbooks?

#eeePC #antiX

An old blue clamshell netbook running updates of AntiX on the screen.

"you should get a faster laptop to make music"

no. you should get a slower laptop

#sapf #LiveCoding #Emacs #EeePC

EeePC running sapf within Emacs, with a Nocturn MIDI controller connected

@andymccall I see. I'm just asking because recently I revived an Ausus EeePC with a 32 bit MXLinux.

#EeePC #MXLinux #Slackware #90s #KDE #Linux

Shows the album cover for "Pieces in a Modern Style" by William Ørbit as symbol for installing old software on more or less modern hardware.

Main Subject: The central figure in the image is a man with short, dark hair. He has a serious expression on his face and is resting his head on his hand, which is propped up by his elbow. His gaze is directed slightly off to the side.

Background: The background of the image is a plain, light-colored wall that appears to be in soft focus, ensuring that the attention remains on the man.

Clothing: He is wearing a dark shirt or top.

Text: At the top right corner of the image, there is text indicating the album title "Pieces in a Modern Style" and the artist's name "William Ørbit." The text is written in a simple, modern font with the album title in orange and the artist’s name in black.

Color Scheme: The overall color scheme of the image is muted and monochromatic, predominantly featuring shades of gray and green, which gives it a calm and contemplative mood.

#DamnSmallLinux revived an aging #EeePC. Here’s how to use it to resurrect any old computer.
Damn Small Linux 2024 Alpha is based on #Debian and antiX, DSL uses Fluxbox and JWM window managers. There is a limited range of pre-installed software, covering web browsers, text editors, code editors, media playback and email. Because it is a Debian-based system, we can install applications using the apt package manager.
https://www.tomshardware.com/desktops/damn-small-linux-revived-my-aging-eee-pc-heres-how-to-use-it-to-resurrect-any-old-computer