[iman7]

My mom got one of those tiny Asus EEEPCs. The one that has like 4Gbs of hard drive space. Suffice to say I was pretty surprised that it came with a Linux Distro, I told her I would have gladly taught her way around Linux OSes since I had some experience with them. But when I found out that she had windows installed on it I almost actually facepalmed.

Now heres her problem, Windows XP, no space for anything but OpenOffice Calc and Writer. Gets a virus somehow despite all the computers at her office had an installation of AVG. I can't uninstall anything. to put in space for an anti-virus since the hard drive has 0 mb left.

I told her that she switch to a linux OS which would be smaller and less prone to viruses. I told her the only drawback would be that animations for OO Impress and MS Office PowerPoint wont really work together so she had to do these on a windows PC.

So how do I go from XP to the most compact Linux OS?

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Hi, welcome to geekstogo, couldn't agree more with your view on windows, others here know a lot more than I do about scripting with linux but here is a howto the should point the way but backup first, and wait for someone else to reply


http://www.mealldubh...disk-structure/

[fleamailman]

Hi, welcome to geekstogo, couldn't agree more with your view on windows, others here know a lot more than I do about scripting with linux but here is a howto the should point the way but backup first, and wait for someone else to reply


http://www.mealldubh...disk-structure/

[Tyger]

Most any of the major distros have a version for the eeePC, I know that PCLinuxOS, Ubuntu and Mandriva have one, but there are several more. The distro that the eeePC came with was Xandros, but it is a commercial distro so you may have to pay extra money to get full features. The best places to look for them are distrowatch and linuxtracker.org.