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Are there any distros that could run on a pentium 2? (feddit.org)

submitted 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) by nichtburningturtle@feddit.org to c/linux@lemmy.ml

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Edit: I am trying to put linux on a compaq armada 1700.

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[–] bloodfart@lemmy.ml 2 points 10 months ago

Spend $12 on this memory module and you’re g2g for almost anything.

[–] Frederic@beehaw.org 2 points 10 months ago

Pretty sure AntiX would work on this

[–] data1701d@startrek.website 1 points 10 months ago

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

[–] furry@furry.engineer 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

@nichtburningturtle DSL

[–] superkret@feddit.org 2 points 10 months ago (6 children)

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

[–] owenfromcanada@lemmy.world 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] superkret@feddit.org 2 points 10 months ago

I remember when full size distros were 700MB.

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[–] LeFantome@programming.dev 1 points 10 months ago

https://www.adelielinux.org/

[–] Trigger2_2000@sh.itjust.works 1 points 10 months ago

Try this: DSL Linux

[–] xrun_detected@programming.dev 1 points 10 months ago (6 children)

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

[–] nyan@sh.itjust.works 2 points 10 months ago

I wonder if there's a Gentoo binpkg host for i486 specifically, since it might almost be practical then. (Or you could set up your own.)

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[–] nanook@friendica.eskimo.com 0 points 1 month ago

@nichtburningturtle The Pentium II is 32-bit and possesses an MMU, so provided you have adequate memory, pretty much any 32-bit distro such as puppy linux or antix should work fine. Newer Ubuntu which is now 64-bit only will not.

[–] HerNameIsTitou@mstdn.social -1 points 10 months ago (6 children)

@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.

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