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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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Just wanted to show off the lowest end hardware I ever ran Linux on (lemmy.ml)

submitted 22 hours 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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[–] Flamekebab@piefed.social 16 points 22 hours ago (2 children)

Whilst the Celeron was indeed utter cack, 2 GB has me making four Yorkshiremen-style "2GB? Luxury!" style comments.

I used to run Ubuntu on my Acer Aspire 1362 WMLi back in 2005. I had 512 MB of RAM and a 2800+ Sempron processor.

That said, looking at this:
https://www.cpubenchmark.net/compare/1351vs710/Mobile-AMD-Sempron-2800+-vs-Intel-Celeron-M-1.60GHz

My old Sempron was a better CPU than that piece of junk Celeron you've got there. Giving it 2GB of RAM is hilarious!

[–] merci3@lemmy.world 4 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

Ikr? Makes me wonder what that celeron was meant for? It barely ran the Win 7 that came preinstalled. That's why I'm so happy to see it run modern Debian with modern packages. Also why I'm doing some research on CPUs to upgrade it to

[–] Flamekebab@piefed.social 2 points 2 hours ago

I assume it was made to upsell people to better CPUs. Celerons have always been awful.

That said, if Win7 came preinstalled then we're talking about different eras of Celeron, at least, I cannot imagine it would be as mediocre as a low-mid AMD CPU from 2004!

I always think of an ex of mine defending criticism of her craptop. "It was good for its time!" No, no it wasn't. It was built around a Celeron. It was built to be trash. It was ewaste with extra steps.

[–] vrighter@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

i started using linux on a single core pentium 4 with 384M of ram

[–] Hule@lemmy.world 3 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

Man, does 384 sound weird!

I know it was a 256 MB and a 128 MB stick... but it was a long time ago..

[–] vrighter@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 18 hours ago

I was 14 years old, and I got the 128meg stick for free. Beggars can't be choosers haha