2026-09-16 13:44 UTC
NetBSD 11 for i386 installed and booted on this eeePC 900 without an issue. As I expected, WiFi was turned off in the BIOS settings; I flipped it on, and the WiFi was detected by the OS.
The graphic acceleration works, and it works pretty well - glxgears run smoothly. I'm currently installing some applications to try them out; sadly, the newest Firefox available for it in the packages is v52, which doesn't load many sites well, but there's Midori with webkit that might work better.
The CPU has SSE2, so I expect most of the packages from pkgsrc would work even if I just grab the binaries.
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@nina_kali_nina@tech.lgbt 2026-09-16 15:08
I tried running Luanti on this eeePC, and it worked, but was unplayable. Even with the lowest graphics settings, minimum rendering distance and running only the client, I got 2 FPS at best. I suppose Celeron M isn't exactly a gaming processor... The biggest problem is that after a few minutes of playing, the laptop would reboot - presumably from overheating. Or is it?! NetBSD repo has Celeste Classic in it, and it works great. For comparison, I tried to run it on a Pentium 3M at 1GHz with 256MB RAM, and it was unplayable. Here, I think, I should be able to comfortably run quite a few emulators, e.g. PS1, GBA, SNES, SMS...