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Single core, 32 bit CPU, can’t even do video playback on VLC. But it kinda works for some offline work, like text editing, and even emulation through zsnes! It’s crazy how Linux keeps old hardware like this running.
Thankfully though, this laptop CPU is upgradable, and so is the ram, so I’m planning on revitalizing and bringing this old Itautec to the 21st century 😄
I was trying to think of the oldest hardware I have run modern Linux on (probably an old Pentium II) when I remembered that I used to run SLS on a 486 (33 MHz, 4 MB of RAM).
The lowest end hardware you ever ran Linux on, so far!
If you have enough resources for a GUI there’s too much bloat.
Intel 486sx at whooping 33MHz, 4Mb RAM, 650 Mb HDD. Was some Red Hat flavor and took a couple of minutes to launch Netscape Navigator.
zsnes & mgba 👀
Are those odd choices? My knowledge of emulators is more outdated than OP’s hardware.
hahaha, hilarious comment :D
nah, not odd at all! it was one of the first things i noticed before i got down to the hardware specs, so it got my attention.
Probably the slowest I’ve used was a 25 MHz(?) sparcstation 1, 500 MB drive, 16 MB RAM. Or some 90’s arm box. Netwinder? iPAQ?
It’s kind of terrible how huge even tiny distributions are these days. But there’s cheap low-power need hardware and big storage available that works great and that’s nice. I don’t miss the bad old times.
Mine was a SPARCclassic. I had two of them, one ran OpenBSD as the gateway and I put early Gentoo on the other one. It took days to build initially.
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