Re: Very old hardware...
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On Friday, July 3, 2020 12:08 PM, Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> wrote:
> On Friday 03 July 2020 13:17:33 Davide Lombardo wrote:
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> > 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 ?
>
> There are bugs, particularly in the (IIRC)halt instruction that are not
> fixable by microcode that Pentium is too old and cannot be patched.
I don't understand everything you guys are talking about. But if you're looking for a Debian, my old Pentium III laptop was fat 'n happy with Jessie.
I don't think it had anything as massive as a 10G disk, though :-)
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Glenn English
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