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The EeePC 701 netbook is a really minimal underpowered machine, still it will run small Linux distros just fine Really? I brought mine to be recycled about si

The EeePC 701 netbook is a really minimal underpowered machine, still it will run small Linux distros just fine Really? I brought mine to be recycled about six months ago because I couldn't find a distro that would work on it anymore. I tried at least a dozen over two days, all of which claimed they were minimalist, and some that specifically claimed they would work on an eeePC 701. None did. All the information making this claim is very outdated, and even the minimalist installations have moved on so that they no longer work on a 701. Some wouldn't boot; the rest were unusable or unstable. The only thing that still worked on the machine was the image that it shipped with, but the Firefox was so anemic, it could barely show any web sites, and certainly none with fancy JavaScript.

tuatoru 4y ago
Yeah, no, it won't work well as a desktop machine, but it's OK for networky things. File or print server. Sound server. Gateway for your homebrew IoT wireless network. Data logger for your electronics workbench.
squarefoot 4y ago
> Really? I brought mine to be recycled about six months ago because I couldn't find a distro that would work on it anymore. Yes, it's really low powered, and storage is minimal so it can't run even base installs of most known distros. That's why I suggested Alpine; it is aimed primarily at virtual machines (where less is better), but it installs fine on real iron and can be extended up to the point it becomes a full desktop, although still much smaller than the equivalents due to most software being rebuilt against musl therefore being lot smaller than libc. The 701 will probably be too small even for a Alpine based desktop, but the OP needed a music player, which seems doable to me.