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Just wanted to show off the lowest end hardware I ever ran Linux on (lemmy.ml)
submitted 2 months ago by merci3@lemmy.world to c/linux@lemmy.ml
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Single core, 32 bit CPU, can't even do video playback on VLC. But it kinda works for some offline work, like text editing, and even emulation through zsnes! It's crazy how Linux keeps old hardware like this running.

Thankfully though, this laptop CPU is upgradable, and so is the ram, so I'm planning on revitalizing and bringing this old Itautec to the 21st century 😄

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[–] pastermil@sh.itjust.works 64 points 2 months ago (1 children)

2GB of RAM? Low?

Were you born after the year 2000?

[–] merci3@lemmy.world 15 points 2 months ago (4 children)

Haha, I've been used to 4gb ram minimum for most of my life 😆

[–] tonyn@lemmy.ml 15 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I remember when 128MB RAM sticks were $400

[–] whaleross@lemmy.world 12 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I remember expanding my Amiga with 512KB to 1MB Fast RAM and later going crazy with another two megabyte Slow RAM.

[–] dylanmorgan@sh.itjust.works 6 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I remember my dad’s friend upgrading our PC clone to 640K. He used a soldering iron.

[–] phantomwise@lemmy.ml 5 points 2 months ago (5 children)

I remember when computers had no memory and the storage was on punch cards made from mammoth leather that we had to tan ourselves after spending our weekends hunting the mammoth with spears. Also we carved our code by hand on stone tablets. Young people these days have it easy.

[–] Hule@lemmy.world 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

You had one job.

Mentioning punch cards had me, but you blew it!

[–] LeFantome@programming.dev 2 points 2 months ago

Punch cards. The “true” PC era.

[–] LeFantome@programming.dev 3 points 2 months ago

“Stone” tablets? Luxury. Ours were dried mammoth dung.

[–] Sims@lemmy.ml 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I slept in my first computer - and worked as verbal RAM (first VRAM!) 28 hours a day !

"..and when you tell this to young people today, they won't believe you !" - Monty Python.

[–] phantomwise@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 months ago

Oh so that's where the term VRAM comes from! 🤯

[–] tonyn@lemmy.ml 8 points 2 months ago

Get off my lawn

[–] pastermil@sh.itjust.works 5 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Lmao, I've ran Linux on an eeePC with 1GB RAM and 900MHz Intel Atom. Compiling gcc & glibc could take hours.

Edit: RPi3 still got only 1GB, BeagleBone Black even got 512MB, don't forget RPi0

[–] AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world 4 points 2 months ago

I still have a cool laptop (with Mandrake and kde) with 192 megs of memory somewhere.