@yura @AngelaScholder @dps910 @wboss some early #Netbooks like the #EeePC701 even had the infamous 137GB - Barrier in it's #BIOS, which I encountered trying out @OS1337 on it!
Try setting it to USB-CDROM and using a stick with like a 4GB partition ?
@monkey well, I do have the same issue.
I'm working on @OS1337 for that reason.
But if you want more than 80x25 MDA, consider @bunsenlabs / #BunsenLabsLinux, which is a #32bit-available #Debian-based distro. ¹
As for #Browsing, @ActionRetro made #FrogFind… ⁴
#FrugalComputing #Netbooks #ModernRetroComputing #Reuse #UseLonger #OS1337
Attached: 1 image Thanks to a donation by @lupo@tilde.zone, I've been able to test @OS1337 on a real #EeePC701-4G and so far this seems to have only some minor hiccups. - OFC I've first ran into the #137GB barrier with the #BIOS when booting my regular #Vendoy drive but then again at the time the #EeePC was released, 240GB SSDs were unobtanium and would've costed propably more than a dozen 701-4G's retail...
I genuinely liked and miss netbooks. They were perfect for small things, didn't use a lot of power, and if the battery puffed, you could easily remove it AND still use the device! I hate that they were beaten by tablets. Bring back netbooks.
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@ActionRetro whilst #ArchLinux runs on a lot of things, #TinyCoreLinux and @OS1337 can go even lower...
That being said if you have an #i486SX with 16MB RAM and 1440kB FDD I hope you can give #OS1337 a try...
https://github.com/OS-1337/OS1337/raw/refs/heads/main/OS1337-core-prerelease.img
Except #VIA failed to make their #Chips & #iGPU|s available en masse at a reasonable price point.
@cleantext I mean, lets be realistic: #Netbooks that struggled to run #WindowsXP ain't something people were crazed about (besides the excellent #EeePC which came with it's nicely customized #Xandros-based #Linux desktop that put the 7" 480x800px screen to good use!)…
Not to mention being able to basically run everything off 5V makes it trivial to "outsorce" the "power problem" to some cheap USB powerbank with multiple ports.
@v_d_richards kenne einige Refurbisher allerdings verkaufen die primär Business-Geräte und kompakte Geräte wie die ThinkPad X-Serie sind viel zu THICC und CHONKY für #Netbooks...
Mit Glück gibt's wo nen Abverkauf von Billig-"#SchinaSchrott" Netbooks mit Atom #Z8350 und 1-8GB RAM sowie eMMC... Wenn die mit #WinSchrott statt veraltetem #Android kommen ist da meist nen "normales" #UEFI drauf und das Teil kann von #USB booten...
Kevin Karhan 
Cheshire
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