Path: csiph.com!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Peter 'Shaggy' Haywood Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc Subject: Re: What old Linux distro to run on a old Pentium III PC? Date: Mon, 23 Jun 2025 10:38:16 +1000 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 24 Message-ID: References: <1031ot5$36t1$1@dont-email.me> <1031uio$4o2c$1@dont-email.me> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit Injection-Date: Mon, 23 Jun 2025 16:09:51 +0200 (CEST) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="1ce62291859e26164d73c7f3dd0375a3"; logging-data="1380646"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX19kUxzaOqd4DyXhbf1nBb1/FZgoyoYMNvs=" User-Agent: KNode/0.10.9 Cancel-Lock: sha1:BeOzWm0KkcTR41xRx4knZCHz6ks= Xref: csiph.com comp.os.linux.misc:69033 Groovy hepcat c186282 was jivin' in comp.os.linux.misc on Fri, 20 Jun 2025 03:06 pm. It's a cool scene! Dig it. >> At Thu, 19 Jun 2025 21:37:07 +0200 "Matthew Camilleri" >> wrote: >> >>> What old Linux distro would be cool to run on this thing? [Snippitty doo-dah.] > Original IBM-PCs ... ummmmmm ...... probably better > with 386's on up. Yes, indeed; especially since Linux has never run at all on lower than a 386. It was originally designed for that very architecture. -- ----- Dig the NEW and IMPROVED news sig!! ----- -------------- Shaggy was here! --------------- Ain't I'm a dawg!!