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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 run 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.
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
I think you’ll find that’s the recommended spec, not the minimum requirements.
Indeed, I see a gfx card in there, and cables.
Overkill.
I used to run a router on a 386 from a floppy disk.
I see a SATA cable, so I’m guessing it will work fine.
Looks like a Cybertruck
anyone else felt the impending finger slice in that photo? case looks pissed and out for flesh.
The PC will not boot without a blood sacrifice. This one is just extra thirsty.
There are people out there powering their PC with electricity … what a bunch of environmentally unfriendly weirdos.
I just top up my BSU (blood supply unit) daily and it purrs (in Latin) like a charm.
Yes, this one has tasted blood before. You can tell by the way that it is.
War makes you unrecognizable, buddy.
Yeah don’t plug that in
Put it in rice first
Needs some work on the cable management but no other notes, 5/7 build.
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
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.
I used to have one of those! Well before I ever knew about Linux, but it was great fun making little stuff in BASIC and playing with actually floppy disks.
What was it, the ENIAC?
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.)
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.
#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.
That graphics card is too nice
My Amilo L1310G likes this
I literally LOL’ed. Just wanted to say that
I didn’t think rust was required
Rust has been a part of the kernel since 6.8.
