Caluser2000
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Show Linux running on your old hardware in here. TinyCore on my AMD K6-2 testing system with 256megs of ram.
@bob466 :-I don't have any old hardware except my 12 year old Laptop and that's 64bit...don't see why I'd ever want to. View attachment 21202
Oh, there's no logical REASON to at all, mate; but some of us just love messing around with "dinosaur" tech, simply to see what you CAN make it do!
The results can sometimes surprise you...
It's fun. No other reason than that. Needless to say, we usually all have functional, up-to-date systems running on much newer hardware, too. The old gear is just for a laugh.
If ye anciente Inspiron lappie hadn't given up the ghost a couple of years back, I would probably have been running TinyCore on it myself. Not much else you could go for, with only a 32-bit (400 MHz FSB) P4 and a gig-and-a-half of DDR1 RAM....even Puppy was getting to be too much for it.
Exactly!!@bob466 :-
Oh, there's no logical REASON to at all, mate; but some of us just love messing around with "dinosaur" tech, simply to see what you CAN make it do!
The results can sometimes surprise you...
It's fun. No other reason than that. Needless to say, we usually all have functional, up-to-date systems running on much newer hardware, too. The old gear is just for a laugh.
If ye anciente Inspiron lappie hadn't given up the ghost a couple of years back, I would probably have been running TinyCore on it myself. Not much else you could go for, with only a 32-bit (400 MHz FSB) P4 and a gig-and-a-half of DDR1 RAM....even Puppy was getting to be too much for it.
Mike.![]()