tl;dr: The author revives a 2009 ASUS Eee PC 1000HE (Intel Atom N280, 1GB DDR2) by installing Arch Linux 32, the community-maintained fork for x86 hardware dropped by mainline Arch in 2017. The write-up walks through the full install process—partitioning with MBR/fdisk, GRUB, systemd-networkd with iwd for Wi-Fi, and LXQt on X11 as a lightweight desktop—plus a $5 upgrade to the max-supported 2GB of RAM. Performance remained bottlenecked by the CPU and HDD, but the machine is now usable as a CLI server with an optional GUI login.