On Sat, 17 Oct 2015 16:29:31 -0500 rlhar...@oplink.net wrote: > On Sat, October 17, 2015 3:22 pm, Sven Arvidsson wrote: > > No problem! > > I have the first generation EeePC, which I would happily give away, but > > I doubt you plan on visiting Sweden anytime soon? ;) > > Your offer is gracious, Sven. > > However, I just found an outfit which has a few eeePC in stock, at about > US$225; the product series is EeeBook X205, with 32Gbyte flash memory. > Would one of these be suitable? I can send you the URL.
A very quick web search tells me that people have gotten Ubuntu running on this with a little hacking, but that you need a 4.0 kernel for wifi and sound does not work at all. There is also a page for it on the Debian wiki, that seems to indicate you can get Jessie running: https://wiki.debian.org/InstallingDebianOn/Asus/X205TA > > Have you considered liberating a Chromebook? > > The same outfit has in stock a large number of Lenovo Chromebook N21, with > ChomeOS and 16Gbyte solid-state drive, at US$200. (11.8in x 8.5in versus > 11.3in x 7.6in for the eeePC) Well, what I can find tells me that running some sort of Linux in a chroot should be pretty straightforward, but that is probably not what you want. To run a full, standard Linux distribution such as Debian, you would need to open the machine up to remove a jumper or a screw, flash the firmware, and cross your fingers - this will also remove the ability to boot ChromeOS. The following link sums it up: https://www.reddit.com/r/chrubuntu/comments/3dkk9n/help_anyone_have_experience_with_the_lenovo_n21/ Even if you do all that, I can't find anything that says everything _will_ work correctly, just that it _should_. Petter -- "I'm ionized" "Are you sure?" "I'm positive."
