There is a derivative of MEPIS called antiX that is made to run on old/minimal hardware.

I actually just booted up the LiveCD last night on an old HP desktop with a 1GHz processor and 512MB of RAM it it was pretty responsive even in 'live cd' mode. I haven't tried installing it yet, but I believe it is worth a look if you are opposed to 'bloat'.

http://antix.mepis.org/index.php/Main_Page

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Todd Young

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From: "Mark Katerberg" <mark.katerberg at gmail.com>
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Sent: Thursday, August 6, 2009 2:22:53 PM GMT -06:00 US/Canada Central
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I actually have the eeePC 1000HE as well. I think I will try out all the ones listed. I have tried Ubuntu (both regulation and NBR) and was a little annoyed by the bloatedness. It might just be because I've just gotten away from Vista though... 


2009/8/6 J Cruit < j at packetgod.com > 


Another vote for Ubuntu on the netbook, I used Ubuntu NBR (NetBook Remix) on my EEE1000HE and it worked perfectly right out of the box. 





On Thu, Aug 6, 2009 at 11:50 AM, Yaron < tclug at freakzilla.com > wrote: 


Hey there, 


On Thu, 6 Aug 2009, Bob De Mars wrote: 

> Once you go Slack, you don't go back...... 


Funny you shoudl say that (: I think Slackware was the /first/ 
distribution I actually used. I mean, before that they weren't really 
"distributions". I do remember getting the Yggdrassil Linux CD though. 

Once I switched AWAY form Slack, I never went back (: But, I switched to 
Red Hat, and once I switched away from THAT I never went back. Debian 
lasted a long time, and when I switched to Ubuntu I actually DID go back 
to debian. But I've recently got Ubuntu going again and I like it a lot. 

So my vote's for Ubuntu, especially on a netbook! 





-Yaron 

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