[roamer_1]

All right, I have a question... I have an Asus EEE PC from early netbook era, running xp (poorly)... I have already jacked the ram as far as it will go (4g, i think), and I am willing to stuff a solid state hdd in it (I have a spare laying around)...

I would like a recommendation as to which nix distro to use to bring it to reasonable performance (bearing in mind, wireless)... I need net, LAN, basic PIM, basic office, music and video (youtube, movies, etc).

I know it’s never going to be a speed demon, but I really like the clam-shell form factor a lot better than the tablet that replaced it, and would go back to it if I could get it to run decently.

[ShadowAce]

Are are two discussions on that particular topic:

Linux Questions

Stack Exchange

Hope that helps!

[angryoldfatman]

My personal recommendation for the Asus machine you’re talking about is Mint or Ubuntu running the xfce GUI.

Mint 32-bit xfce:
http://www.linuxmint.com/edition.php?id=169

Mint 64-bit xfce:
http://www.linuxmint.com/edition.php?id=170

Xubuntu
http://xubuntu.org/getxubuntu/

[Stentor]

I ran Lubuntu on a Dell netbook. Worked fine. I have Elementary OS on it now. Works better. It actually runs Youtube without stuttering on both. The original Windows 7 Starter addition never worked out of the box. 1 gig.

Lubuntu 15.04 (Vivid Vervet)

elementary os

UNetbootin from Sourceforge.