now running the coolest operating system on the coolest hardware - I've got no idea what I'm doing 😅

more importantly - which stickers should I get? thinking maybe a custom "oem sticker" (is there a proper word for them?) and have any of you done any crazy mods to your eee pc (or other laptops) that you'd care to share? I hollowed the dead battery case so could fit something fun there maybe.

#openbsd #bsd #eeePC #eee #retrocomputing #diyprojects #diy #pcmodding

I finished stripping the rubberized coating off the #Asus #EeePC and I'm super happy with the results!

One feature of this #Netbook which I knew nothing about is that it has two power buttons. One button boots up to the #Windows OS as expected.

The other button fast boots in about 8 seconds to a bare bones #Linux distro called Express Gate. Apparently it's built into the motherboard chipset which is why it can load so fast.

This is awesome!

#RetroTech #RetroComputing

All right, who's the person that thought rubberized coatings on everything in the mid to late 2000s was the cool thing to do?

This is an #Asus #EeePC 1005PEB and the lid was covered in the thickest rubber coating that I have encountered so far.

Of course, it had gummed up over the last 15+ years and I have been slowly removing it with isopropyl alcohol for the past hour. I went around the edges and have half of the cover cleaned.

#PC #RetroComputing #NetBook

One memory I would have liked to have kept suppressed is just how bad driver issues used to be in #Windows. 😆

Driver discovery and installation is one area where Windows really improved over the years.

I remember being impressed with just how good it was upgrading from XP to 7, but Win 10 was near perfection in my use case.

I bring this up because I was trying to revive an old #Asus #EeePC this week and it was a challenge.

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Restauration d'un ancien Asus #eeepc.
Ajout de RAM et SSD, installation d' #antixlinux. Et apprentissage des portes logiques avec #gcompris.

Ça tourne très bien. L'ajout de RAM n'était pas forcément nécessaire. Mais navigation Web impossible (enfin, si, mais le processeur tourne à fond et l'affichage de page est interminable). Peut être tester avec #midoribrowser ?