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Alternative distributions for the EEEPC: PupEEE

Tuesday, January 18th, 2011

I decided to give a look at some Linux distributions designed for netbooks and alternative to Ubuntu. I’m not going to replace Ubuntu any soon, even if I don’t like the latest version, the one I have installed is going to be supported for a long time. I’m simply curious to see what alternatives are available, for netbooks, and to test how they perform on my EEEPC.

The distribution I decided to start with is PupEEE: the EEEPC tailored version of the famous small footprint distribution Puppy Linux.

 

Download and install

 

I downloaded the latest version of PupEEE from its download page. Preparing a bootable media from the downloaded zip is a little different from usual but not difficult. Once I extracted the zip file on an empty SD card I simply executed the “bootinst.sh” script placed in the “boot” folder.

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Once extracted PupEEE only takes only about 130MB of disk space (this is a really small footprint), I’ve been able to install it on an old 256MB SD card that I had left in a drawer with other obsolete or useless things.

 
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