I found this netbook(?) somewhere in old things and just wonder: can linux be installed on it?
No, you’re not allowed. Now go to your room and think about what you’ve done.
It’s already running Linux. You just showed us a screenshot of it running Android, which is Linux.
I know :D
Probably Yes
Looks like you already did
Most likely yes, as many others have said. Of course you’ll likely have to pick a very lightweight DE.
As a fallback there is always NetBSD.
This looks like one of those low cost netbooks from the time where “EPad” and “MID” tablets were a thing. There is an edition of Windows CE floating around for these - but WiFi will not work, neither the modem if this has one built in.
No idea about Linux - there is a kernel so you’re technically half way there, but considering most of these had a slow single core ARM CPU and 256MB of RAM on a good day, practical use is limited IMO
Well of course you can.
I think you would need to provide more detail to know what you have. Does it have a model number on it anywhere?
that’s it: CPU: WM8650 800Hz Memory:DDR 256MB
It’s information on back cover
“WM8650” seems to indicate a VIA WonderMedia WM8650 armv5te chipset, used by a lot of anemic Android laptops circa 2011 (sold under various brandnames, but apparently all made in the same factory). People have installed Linux on them in the past (there seems to have been a fad for Arch on these for a while, given the search results), but you might have trouble getting a device tree that will work with a modern kernel.
Honestly, though, it has less processor than a Raspberry Pi 3. Unless you’ve already thought of a specific use for this, I’d dump it back in the junk drawer.
It might be an interesting project to hardware mod it to gut it and replace internally with an R.Pi.
Probably not worth trying to actually use today. I’d leave it as it is, imo it’s better as a small piece of history - Android on PC is pretty niche
I just can’t find
The first image for wm8650 that comes up is a Debian boot logo.
Looks very similar to the Windows CE device action retro has in this video so what he used could be helpful https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=anz17CNMixU
Alpine Linux if ARM7 but it is older arm i think
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Even a potato can run linux if you try hard(er) enough.
