Asus Eee PC 701 4G & Debian 12 "Bookworm"
Channel: Alone in the Kitchen — by Nino Ivanov
Date: 24/09/2023

Debian 12 "Bookworm" is demonstrated running nimbly on an antique machine — an Asus Eee PC 701 4G, with a 630 MHz Celeron Processor. Debian beats all the pseudo "light" Linuxes (not light at all) by allowing a unique software selection of LXTerminal as terminal emulator (WITH right-click copy functionality), rox-filer as file manager (though also Midnight Commander and Tux Commander are valiant contenders), nedit/xedit and geany as text editors, rgbpaint (and mtpaint) as paint programs, mirage as image viewer, vlc as media player and webcam capture program, Audacity as audio editor, and xfce4-screenshooter for screenshots. Omitted in the presentation are the countless command line programs, from wordgrinder and sc to tcc, algol68g, gprolog and sbcl, all served by Windowmaker with XDM as login mask, which truly make the old and little gadget a capable option for modern times. The installation on the #Asus #Eee #PC is recommended for anyone who would go for #Debian GNU/Linux.