On Sat, 2015-10-17 at 14:49 -0500, rlharris@oplink.net wrote: > On Sat, October 17, 2015 2:27 pm, Sven Arvidsson wrote: > > > Well, there was at least two questions in your post. I provided a > > suggestion for one of them. > > Forgive me, Sven. When I began this thread, I was thinking strictly > in > terms of a smart phone, and did not know of a smartphone forum. > > After a few exchanges, it occurred to me that I would be served > better by > keeping my flip-open cellular phone for voice, and acquiring a mobile > G4 > cellular modem and a small computer for Internet access while on the > road. > And after a few more exchanges, I recalled the Asus eeePC. > > G4 modems are not expensive. But, sadly, it appears that the eeePC > has > been discontinued. I have been searching for articles and forums > discussing Debian on the eeePC, and have found some which are rather > old. > It seems that I am "beating a dead horse". > > So now my goal is to find an alternative to the Asus eeePC. I need a > pc > which is small enough to be used in the car. And, of course, it must > be > able to run Debian Jessie. No problem! I have the first generation EeePC, which I would happily give away, but I doubt you plan on visiting Sweden anytime soon? ;) Have you considered liberating a Chromebook? It seems to be similar at least in weight to the first gen Eee and it should be possible to get Debian running. Probably a little bit more hassle than a normal laptop though. There's also a few x86 tablets, using Intel Bay Trail, that some people are running Fedora on. Another option is a hybrid tablet/laptop that folds the keyboard. They're usually quite portable, but I think support is quite poor. -- Cheers, Sven Arvidsson http://www.whiz.se PGP Key ID 6FAB5CD5
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