I have an 'EasyNotebook' running Windows CE 6.0 on a built-in 2GB flash drive and 128MB RAM. There is no CD drive but there are USB ports and a SD card slot. I find Win CE extremely limited for my own purposes. I do a lot of word processing and netbrowsing but although the system has Wifi built-in that can connect to hotspots, I cannot install software to access mobile broadband via a USB modem. I would like to replace the OS with a Linux OS. Is there a Linux OS that will run with these specifications? Is it advisable to replace Win CE with Linux for my machine? Would I be able to do it with a bootable USB disk or would I need to download a Linux OS directly from the Internet? Thanks.

Maybe a Linux on a pendrive? There's a site around it called pendrivelinux (go figure) - loaded with instructions on the matter.

Let us know how it turns out - this could be of some great use to others

Thor

Knoppix perhaps? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knoppix http://knoppix.net/

I couldn't really comment on how well it would fit your needs as I'm entirely unfamiliar with it.

There is a lot of good information in this thread:

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1349626

Sounds like it is not a beginner project. I would have spent a few more dollars on a netbook known to be Linux compatible, personally.

Hello and thanks to those who responded. I will check out your suggestions. I have had this 7" notebook for 2 years now - at the time I got it, I was looking for something really small and light and it was the only one small enough to meet my requirements and only came with Win CE. A few months later a Linux version appeared and I could have kicked myself. Now these things even come with Android! Anyway, thanks again.

I doubt you can get it to work easily. Most of these are not typical x86 systems. But good luck and I hope you post back.

It may be possible to get an image of the linux from the OEM. It would then need to have some special tasks done to copy it to the protected ram even.