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Re: Very old hardware...



On Friday, 3 July 2020 20:58:52 CEST Michael Stone wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 03, 2020 at 07:17:33PM +0200, Davide Lombardo wrote:
> >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 ?
> 
> If the goal is just to experiment then you could run an older version of
> debian. (I think there's not enough memory for the current install
> routine.) OpenBSD or NetBSD or a linux distribution oriented toward
> small systems would run. Nothing will give you a good experience with a
> GUI and web browser on that hardware. For practical purposes, you'd be
> better off with a $35 raspberry PI.

Maybe I can just setup this PC as a Tor's Relay 

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