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From: rbowman <bowman@montana.com>
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Subject: Re: MS is doomed... any year now
Date: 28 Apr 2024 18:24:43 GMT
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On 28 Apr 2024 17:53:42 GMT, Stéphane CARPENTIER wrote:

> It was the day eeePC came along, the new version of Windows couldn't run
> on it, only the old unavailable version could. But the last version of
> Ubuntu was running very well. And the eeePC with Ubuntu sold very well
> and seeing that Microsoft extended the old version of Windows. That way,
> people could buy eeePC with Windows on it.

The Eee PC 4G Surf was first released with Xandros.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xandros

Xandros derived from Debian as does Ubuntu.  I replaced it with Q4OS last 
month since Xandros didn't support WPA2. It runs, more or less. I can't 
imagine XP on that hardware.