LXer: The Asus Eee: How Close Did the World Come to a Linux Desktop?

LXer · 11-02-2018, 09:44 PM

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This is the story of the brief, shining history of the Asus Eee, thefirst netbook—a small, cheap and mostly well-made laptop that dominatedthe computer industry for two or three years about a decade go. It's not somuch that the Eee was ahead of its time, which wasn't that difficult in anindustry then dominated by pricey and bulky laptops that didn't always havea hard drive and by desktop design hadn't evolved much past the first IBM8086 box.

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fatmac · 11-04-2018, 05:17 AM

I still use an Acer AO532 10.1" Atom netbook running Linux, & I've still got my Asus EeeBox miniature desktop computer, (somewhat like a thin client), it's slow, but it still works - although both have been updated to 2GB ram.