Originally posted by stevenc
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There's an ever-widening niche for an operating system that would keep old hardware useful and so avoid having to pay for new hardware to be produced, and shipped (and the many costs of disposing of the old).
Fedora was never about that, so let's not make wild cries if it drops ancient crap.
686-class EeePC with 1GB RAM (still available to buy used)
Athlon K7 desktops?
Intel Pentium-4 PCs?
Intel Celeron(P6/Netburst) laptops?
Athlon K7 desktops?
Intel Pentium-4 PCs?
Intel Celeron(P6/Netburst) laptops?
Note that most netbooks could have their ram upgraded to 2 GB and in most cases it is very worth it.
Also SSDs. Cheap used SSDs instead of whatever junk hard drives they had originally. They do wonders.
AMD Geode 586+CMOV (686-compatible) (available in bulk, pre-owned)
486-class embedded systems (still produced today)
Intel Pentium-III servers?
486-class embedded systems (still produced today)
Intel Pentium-III servers?
Also Alpine Linux (albeit it is a bit more difficult to configure/use).
It really pays off to have a IDE-to-CF adapter so you can place the OS/firmware on that instead than on total crap IDE drives that you can use for data or whatever else where their low performance isn't an issue.
Of course most industrial Geode boards have a CF slot already, then you can use them like a pro.
I think Debian cannot run XFCE+Firefox with less than 1GB RAM nowadays.
Heck it's not plesant on far newer (laptop low end) hardware like AMD E1 APUs.
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