Best distro for Asus EEE PC 701?

**miggols99** · December 25th, 2008

Currently I have ubuntu eee installed on here, but it is running a bit slow. Is there a different distro I can try on here that will run faster?

**jheaton5** · December 25th, 2008

A popular solution is to install intrepid 8.10 and then ubuntu remix on top of it. See this link: http://www.canonical.com/projects/ubuntu/nbr and this one: http://www.ubuntumini.com/2008/10/in...iron-mini.html

**miggols99** · December 25th, 2008

Won't I need to install other things like the wireless drivers? I would really like one that works out of the box...

**oswaldkelso** · December 25th, 2008

http://wiki.debian.org/DebianEeePC

http://wiki.debian.org/DebianPureBlends

http://lottalinuxlinks.com/podcast/ogg.xml

Dave Yates Talks about different distros on a eee pc in episopes 99 +100

**miggols99** · December 26th, 2008

Any more ideas? Debian doesn't seem to work very well for me...

**Old_Grey_Wolf** · December 26th, 2008

A different Ubuntu remix like Eeebuntu perhaps. http://www.eeebuntu.org/

Eeebuntu worked out of the box on my wife's EEE PC 701/4G.

Downloaded Eeebuntu NBR ISO. Used "System > Administration > Create a USB startup disk" in 8.10 running on my laptop.

Put the USB stick in my wife's EEE and booted it. Had to hit the F2 key to change BIOS options, if I remember right, to get it to boot from the USB stick.

Followed the install instructions. Done. Just works fine for her now.

**wolfen69** · December 26th, 2008

i wrote a tutorial at eeeuser.com on how to get ubuntu installed on a eeepc 2G Surf. it is a minimal install with tweaks specific for the eeepc. mine runs very fast.

**kamitsukai** · December 27th, 2008

One that I find very nice out of the box is linux mint although just a remix of ubuntu with all the nasty drivers and codecs installed (he says jokingly...) theres nothing stopping you from installing the ubuntu remix on this (linux mint is fully compatible with ubuntu packages)

http://linuxmint.com

**wolfen69** · December 27th, 2008

Originally Posted by kamitsukai

theres nothing stopping you from installing the ubuntu remix on this (linux mint is fully compatible with ubuntu packages)

http://linuxmint.com

except if he only has a 2gb drive. then you are very limited.

**miggols99** · December 27th, 2008

Originally Posted by Old_Gray_Wolf

A different Ubuntu remix like Eeebuntu perhaps. http://www.eeebuntu.org/

Eeebuntu worked out of the box on my wife's EEE PC 701/4G.

Downloaded Eeebuntu NBR ISO. Used "System > Administration > Create a USB startup disk" in 8.10 running on my laptop.

Put the USB stick in my wife's EEE and booted it. Had to hit the F2 key to change BIOS options, if I remember right, to get it to boot from the USB stick.

Followed the install instructions. Done. Just works fine for her now.

I did this with the base ISO, and all I get is a blinking line, and nothing appears to be happening. I've set the BIOS to boot from the USB drive...maybe the NBR ISO will work better?