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Lee Duna@lemmy.nz to Linux@programming.devEnglish · 1 day ago

Someone ran a modern Linux OS on a 30-year-old CPU, and it's surprisingly usable

www.xda-developers.com

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Someone ran a modern Linux OS on a 30-year-old CPU, and it's surprisingly usable

www.xda-developers.com

Lee Duna@lemmy.nz to Linux@programming.devEnglish · 1 day ago
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It's not a daily driver, but it does run.
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    Pentium 75 with… 128MB of ram lol. That’s LARGE!

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      My pentium 133 got upgraded to 128MB a few years after I had it. Definitely by 1999. It’s a 1995 proc so it’s not an unrealistic ram amount within the usable lifetime of the processor.

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