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Linux is a family of open source Unix-like operating systems based on the Linux kernel, an operating system kernel first released on September 17, 1991 by Linus Torvalds. Linux is typically packaged in a Linux distribution (or distro for short).

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

submitted 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago (2 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I installed gentoo on a pentium D it took 5 days to compile and to setup, with distcc.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Why not cross-compile it?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Cause i wanted to see how long it would take

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

There was also a competition (long ago) to see who could build a computer that would successfully boot Windows 95. The goal was to boot the slowest possible time (no arbitrary delays allowed).

The winner wrote a shim that emulated a floating point unit of the i486 so it would boot on a i386 (no floating point). The result was... booting after many weeks. They won big time.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

I did some similar stuff on a Raspberry Pi. I had to NFS mount my desktop and make a swapdisk on the NFS mount to have enough RAM to build. It wasn't fast, but it did eventually work.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 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.)