The Return of the Asus Eee PC 900 -- with PicarOS!
The reason why I jumped into the Linux train was a tiny Asus Eee PC 900 that I bought in 2007. This 8.9 inch netbook came with Linux pre-installed and I intended to change the OS to Windows XP, but the latter made the netbook a real snail. In addition, my wife had already grown fond of the cute Frozen Bubble game on Xandros, the netbook's original OS, so I went back to Linux, but put Mandriva on the machine instead.
It was an amazing little machine that helped me get my tenure at the University where I work, but that I gave away later to a person who needed it to keep studying.
Last month, by pure serendipity, I saw another Asus Eee PC 900 sitting on the display window of a computer repair shop.
I bought it for my daughter, expecting to change the Windows OS to Sugar since her school decided not to lend the OLPC XO computers for take out.
Even though I had my pendrive ready with Sugar, my plan did not work because I failed to consider that the machine is very old and, hence, its architecture is 32 bit. Most Linux distros abandoned 32 bit to concentrate on 64 bit. Sugar does not support 32 bit.
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