Re: Very old hardware...

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Subject	Re: Very old hardware...
Date	Sun, 05 Jul 2020 04:40:02 +0200
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Davide Lombardo wrote:

> On Friday, 3 July 2020 20:58:52 CEST Michael Stone wrote:
>> On Fri, Jul 03, 2020 at 07:17:33PM +0200, Davide Lombardo wrote:
>> >Good evening Debian User, I have found an old PC with these specs:
>> >CPU: Pentium III 700 Mhz;
>> >DRAM: 64 MB SDDR
>> >GPU: RIVA TNT-2
>> >HARDISK: 10 GB
>> >FLOPPY DISK DRIVE
>> >MODEM 56K
>> >In the receipt is written 3,000 Lire (1,500) Euro of today...
>> >Do you think I can install something different than the already
>> >installed WIN98 system ?
>> 
>> If the goal is just to experiment then you could run an older version of
>> debian. (I think there's not enough memory for the current install
>> routine.) OpenBSD or NetBSD or a linux distribution oriented toward
>> small systems would run. Nothing will give you a good experience with a
>> GUI and web browser on that hardware. For practical purposes, you'd be
>> better off with a $35 raspberry PI.
> 
> Maybe I can just setup this PC as a Tor's Relay

Cite: 

However, Debian GNU/Linux stretch willnot run on 586 (Pentium) or earlier
processors. 
https://www.debian.org/releases/stretch/i386/ch02s01.html.en
+
https://www.debian.org/releases/buster/i386/ch02s01.en.html

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Re: Very old hardware... Michael Stone <mstone@debian.org> - 2020-07-03 21:00 +0200
  Re: Very old hardware... deloptes <deloptes@gmail.com> - 2020-07-04 18:10 +0200
  Re: Very old hardware... deloptes <deloptes@gmail.com> - 2020-07-04 19:20 +0200
  Re: Very old hardware... deloptes <deloptes@gmail.com> - 2020-07-05 04:40 +0200
    Re: Very old hardware... David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2020-07-05 07:00 +0200
      Re: Very old hardware... Long Wind <longwind2@yahoo.com> - 2020-07-05 07:20 +0200
        Re: Very old hardware... David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2020-07-05 18:30 +0200
          Re: Very old hardware... "James H. H. Lampert" <jamesl@touchtonecorp.com> - 2020-07-05 19:40 +0200
      Re: Very old hardware... deloptes <deloptes@gmail.com> - 2020-07-05 12:10 +0200
        Re: Very old hardware... Tixy <tixy@yxit.co.uk> - 2020-07-05 17:10 +0200
          Re: Very old hardware... Long Wind <longwind2@yahoo.com> - 2020-07-05 18:00 +0200
        Re: Very old hardware... David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2020-07-05 18:10 +0200
          Re:  Very old hardware... "Thomas Schmitt" <scdbackup@gmx.net> - 2020-07-05 23:50 +0200
            Re: Very old hardware... David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2020-07-12 02:10 +0200
              Re: Very old hardware... deloptes <deloptes@gmail.com> - 2020-07-12 09:10 +0200
              Re: Very old hardware... Mark Allums <mark@allums.email> - 2020-07-12 09:40 +0200
  Re: Very old hardware... Keith bainbridge <keithrbau@gmail.com> - 2020-07-05 09:00 +0200

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