Ran across this and thought some of you would enjoy it.
A guy takes a 2009 ASUS Eee PC 1000HE (Atom N280, 1GB RAM) that had been sitting in storage running Windows XP and brings it back to life with Arch Linux 32-bit.
Nice detailed writeup of the whole process, including the fun of dealing with 32-bit only hardware and a wireless card that won’t do 5GHz.
Good read if you like seeing old netbooks, troubleshooting, home lab projects and getting things to work again.