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I revived a friend’s old laptop by installing Linux on it, and I told her that using Linux entitled her to a small amount of “nerd creds”. Years later, she told me that it did end up eliciting mild approval from a woman who ended up being her partner for multiple years. The system works!
I literally LOL’ed. Just wanted to say that
Very funny, but I actually used to own a computer that didn’t meet the minimum requirements for Linux.
(Not my pic, but the same model.)
What we had that couldn’t: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_PS/2_Model_30
Work was getting rid of them so my dad bought it. Great machine, learned a ton.
We are Tandy buddies!
Still looking for an original monitor.
I’m sad that my parents eventually forced me to get rid of it. At least I kept the keyboard, though.
They tried running Linux on their ENIAC, but someone accidentally tipped over one of the crates of punch cards which has unfortunately set the project back a few months.
Linux doesn’t run on anything below a 386 because it requires a MMU.
(Some people have made forks that can run on 286s etc., but those changes have never been part of the mainline kernel.)
What can I run on a Transmeta Crusoe?
You can if you emulate a CPU that does have an MMU. Someone has actually done this to get Linux booting on an Intel 4004. Another one got Linux to boot on a Commodore 64.
386 support was dropped years ago.
#if _FP_W_TYPE_SIZE < 32 #error "Here's a nickel kid. Go buy yourself a real computer." #endifLOL!
That isn’t the same limitation I was thinking of, though.
I wasn’t confident which requirement you were missing, but I love that error
I was under the impression that the main impediment to running Linux on a 286 was the lack of an MMU. I might be wrong about that, though.
Man I love Lubuntu, it’s such a tiny distro that makes even old as fuck machines semi functional for modern usage.
Even those weird ass atom netbooks work like a charm with it and you can actually do decent work on them!
And the best part is that the UI keeps being understandable by average windows users
Great distro,.10/10, would install on a Compaq laptop again
Xubuntu brought a garbage Vista era system to usable levels for me for a dumb video I made a while ago, wasn’t fast but definitely usable.
I see a SATA cable, so I’m guessing it will work fine.
That graphics card is too nice
Yeah don’t plug that in
Put it in rice first
I must still have a Pentium S with Windows 98 back at my mom’s house. Now I am wondering if it could run Linux.
If you’re not planning to run GUI
I’ve seen videos of people running Damn Small Linux with a GUI on Pentium 1s.
None of them are very recent, so I don’t know how well ‘modern’ DSL would fare on a P1, but there are a few recent videos of people browsing the web using Dillo on Pentium 3s.
I installed Debian Buster and ran Firefox on my Pentium 3 750 a couple of years ago. It wasn’t very fast or very usable, but I ran it.
I mostly use that system for retro games in DOS 6.2 and Windows 98. The Debian installation is my utility OS for when I want to transfer new stuff to the DOS partitions, because it’s way easier to connect it to the network.
I think you’ll find that’s the recommended spec, not the minimum requirements.
Indeed, I see a gfx card in there, and cables.
I didn’t think rust was required
Rust has been a part of the kernel since 6.8.
Le potato
Looks like a Cybertruck
You guys run a motherboard? Im just running 2 diodes and a vacuum tube to manually type in all the 1s and 0s that make up the linux kernel /j
That’s nothing, I have a group of ravens who fly around in strict RISC-V formations, giving me shiny bits from time to time all part of the ramdisk boot sequence
I love this comment
BirdFS is a pretty efficient file system, in the sense that it retrieves items from an infinite disk that you didn’t even know you wanted. The read speed is several times a day, and the write speed I’m still currently waiting on a metric there
I just use butterflies
anyone else wince when they felt the deep finger slice in that photo? case looks pissed and out for flesh.
War makes you unrecognizable, buddy.
Yes, this one has tasted blood before. You can tell by the way that it is.
Linux System Requirements:
- Computer (optional)
I’ve seen Linux kernels powering eletrical instalations control monitors. I’d risk we can say that if it runs on electric impulses, it can run Linux.
When will EVs be jailbroken?
Car infotainment systems already run on Linux. Tesla famously use Ubuntu.
The entire car. Not the infotainement alone.
You likely know this, but you really, really, really, really do not want stuff like your airbag controller to run a preemptive task switching operating system.
systemctl enable --now systemd-airbagd
