The Trench Reynolds Report

  • The Asus 4G Surf Linux Challenge: wattOS 10

    I almost thought about not doing the EEEpc challenge anymore. I was playing a video game and tried using the Surf to look something up about the game. The Surf was so slow to work that I thought that it’s not really a functional computer anymore. Not only is it a 9-year-old computer, but my…

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  • Trench’s further adventures in Linux: SalentOS and wattOS

    I have two new Linux recommendations for you this week. The first one is SalentOS, a distro from Italy based on the long-term support (LTS) releases of Ubuntu. The one I tested was based on Lubuntu 12.04 although 14.04 is coming out in just a few days. I tried the version that comes with the…

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  • The Asus 4G Surf Linux Challenge Returns

    So my Asus EeePC 701 4G Surf came out of active duty recently. So I’ve been able to see if I can find any Linux distros that would not only fit on the 4GB hard drive bit would work well also. At first, I went to my standby and installed Zorin OS 5 Lite. I…

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