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AbidanYre ,

I have Tiny Core running on a PII 333MHz machine with 128MB of RAM

furry ,
@furry@furry.engineer avatar

@nichtburningturtle DSL

superkret ,

Hasn’t that been unmaintained for years? Puppy is the spiritual successor.

furry ,
@furry@furry.engineer avatar

@superkret funnily enough, it was updated in June this year

refalo ,

Development restarted this year, the 2024 version will be out soon, it’s in RC phase.

superkret ,

Thanks, TIL.

owenfromcanada ,
@owenfromcanada@lemmy.world avatar

It was updated this year. They moved on from the mini-CD limit (50MB?) to a regular CD (700MB). Spiritual successor, newer target.

wildbus8979 ,

NetBSD

refalo ,

Rule 1

wildbus8979 ,

Rule 1 applies to posts, not comments.

wesker ,
@wesker@lemmy.sdf.org avatar

Overruled.

possiblylinux127 ,

Won’t work with much hardware

wildbus8979 ,

Works with plenty of hardware, especially something that would run on such a platform.

possiblylinux127 ,

I have found it to lack support for WiFi and video acceleration

HerNameIsTitou ,
@HerNameIsTitou@mstdn.social avatar

@nichtburningturtle I run Arch Linux on a Pentium 2 E5300 and with some system tweaks like using Dwm/St, less than 1000 packages and args on some software it run smoothly.

nichtburningturtle OP ,
@nichtburningturtle@feddit.org avatar

Did you use an archlinux32 i486 iso?

HerNameIsTitou ,
@HerNameIsTitou@mstdn.social avatar

@nichtburningturtle nah, amd64 official arch linux

nichtburningturtle OP ,
@nichtburningturtle@feddit.org avatar

Didn’t know there were 64bit pentium 2 cpus.

n2burns ,

I can’t find anything to anything to support their assertion that a E5300 is a “Pentium 2”, but the chip is from 2008, so it’s not relevant to your situation. Maybe they meant it was a Pentium from the Core2Duo time, but that’s still not a “Pentium 2”.

Frederic ,

not this P2, I think OP is talking about the P2 from 1997, I had a P2 266MHz and was running it at 300 (75x4), 32MB of RAM, 4GB HD, it was the shit in 97

refalo ,

Tiny Core has a minimum CPU of i486DX.

antiX might also work but I couldn’t find a minimum CPU requirement listed, just that it has an x86 version.

bjoern_tantau ,
@bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de avatar

Fli4l should. Back when it was new it was meant to fit on a floppy and run on 3’86 machines. It’s for running a home router.

aksdb ,

Fli4l is still around?! Crazy. I used that back in 2002 or so to turn an old i386 with 3 ISA HP 100Mbit network cards into a router + fileserver combo. Good times.

possiblylinux127 ,

The Linux kernel works fine. How much ram do you have? I personally would build a custom image with buildroot.

Other option is Debian

nichtburningturtle OP ,
@nichtburningturtle@feddit.org avatar

32MB

rimu ,
@rimu@piefed.social avatar

I think that's going to be more of a limitation than your CPU. Any chance of getting 256+ MB of ram?

possiblylinux127 , (edited )

Buildroot as that is to small for anything else. However, it can run small programs like vi and nano. You probably could even run neofetch.

TCB13 ,
@TCB13@lemmy.world avatar

The option is Debian.

Frederic ,

Pretty sure AntiX would work on this

superkret ,

May I ask what you want to do with it?

nichtburningturtle OP ,
@nichtburningturtle@feddit.org avatar

I wanted to create an abomination, but it’s to old. I’ll have to “upgrade” to a newer machine.

RmDebArc_5 ,
@RmDebArc_5@sh.itjust.works avatar

I’m running antix on a Pentium 2 with 512mb ram and it’s performing quite nicely

TCB13 ,
@TCB13@lemmy.world avatar

Frankly the power consumption of that thing x performance delivered will be just bad. Take for example this example, a more modern Pentium D vs a Pi:

https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/dcb84a52-21ba-4b4c-8ebb-07cf43273ada.png

If you don’t have any kind of attachment to the machine, just trash it, get a Pi or a second hand 8th Gen i5 HP Mini for around 80$ and enjoy. If you do have an attachment to the machine you may as well run some OS from the same era. winworldpc.com/library/operating-systems

nichtburningturtle OP ,
@nichtburningturtle@feddit.org avatar

I’m doing it for the memes

refalo ,

That’s interesting, I’ve never heard of anyone actually concerned about the power consumption of their PC before, but I guess it makes sense if you live somewhere that it’s quite expensive or just don’t have much money… or want to be greener I guess.

TCB13 ,
@TCB13@lemmy.world avatar

I don’t live in a place with particularly high energy prices, but I’ve been reading about countless complaints about home labbers changing to new hardware because of that.

The thing is that, even if the power is cheap a Pi when you’re comparing a PII to a RPi 4 or a modern machine with a “T” CPU if you’ve the money to spend on the new thing you’ll way better, faster CPU, faster RAM, less noise, less power, more modern features, less software issues… at certain point it makes no sense to run that old hardware. Did you ever try to SSH into a Core Duo machine with a Ed25519 key? The CPU doesn’t have the modern crypto extensions making the login unbearably slow, similar happens with other SSL stuff.

billwashere ,

Is nobody gonna ask?!? Why do you have a pentium 2? I like old hardware as much or more than the next guy but man that’s old. And this from a guy who has a working Commodore 64 🤣

nichtburningturtle OP ,
@nichtburningturtle@feddit.org avatar

Some time ago I scalvanged some old hardware my old school was gonna throw out.

billwashere ,

Oh I get it. I hate to see hardware that could be useful being thrown out. Hence the reason I have stacks of 1TB hard drives with no real use.

I have a long term goal of running my home automation system on that commodore for no other reason than it’s weird. So I get it.

refalo ,

retro enthusiast community has been growing a lot in recent years, especially with youtube channels like 8-bit guy, LGR, MVG and such

billwashere ,

I mean I guess. Just in my opinion a Pentium 2 is too new to be old and too old to be new. Something like 386 or a Coco2, that’s cool.

I deal with a lot of old hardware in my lab but sometimes it’s just too much trouble. But whatever floats your boat. Last thing I’ll be is judgey about what brings you happiness. I mean I’m currently playing with Proxmox on a 2013 Mac Pro because I think it’s fun. And some people (cough …cough… my wife) wonder why 🤣

msmc101 ,

throwing Linux on ancient hardware is a time honored tradition

Psiczar ,

Shit, I’ve thrown out stuff several generations newer than that because it was too old.

data1701d ,
@data1701d@startrek.website avatar

I compiled a minimal custom Buildroot once for a Pentium II to do some backups with USB support. Kerbel 5.17.

xrun_detected ,

gentoo. i’m not even gonna look this up but i’d be surprised if immolo hasn’t installed in that platform yet ;)

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