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2d ago

I think the motherboard is enough?

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This is what happens to your computer if you allow Rust in the kernel. /s
- To be fair Its lifetime had ended, so rust took the ownership.

Linux System Requirements:
Computer (optional)
- I've seen Linux kernels powering eletrical instalations control monitors. I'd risk we can say that if it runs on electric impulses, it can run Linux.
  When will EVs be jailbroken?
  
  Car infotainment systems already run on Linux. Tesla famously use Ubuntu.

You guys run a motherboard? Im just running 2 diodes and a vacuum tube to manually type in all the 1s and 0s that make up the linux kernel /j
- That's nothing, I have a group of ravens who fly around in strict RISC-V formations, giving me shiny bits from time to time all part of the ramdisk boot sequence
  
  I just use butterflies
  
  I love this comment

I didn't think rust was required
- Rust has been a part of the kernel since 6.8.

anyone else felt the impending finger slice in that photo? case looks pissed and out for flesh.
- The PC will not boot without a blood sacrifice. This one is just extra thirsty.
  
  There are people out there powering their PC with electricity ... what a bunch of environmentally unfriendly weirdos.
  I just top up my BSU (blood supply unit) daily and it purrs (in Latin) like a charm.
- Yes, this one has tasted blood before. You can tell by the way that it is.
- War makes you unrecognizable, buddy.

I think you'll find that's the recommended spec, not the minimum requirements.
- Indeed, I see a gfx card in there, and cables.

Very funny, but I actually used to own a computer that didn't meet the minimum requirements for Linux.
(Not my pic, but the same model.)
- https://github.com/torvalds/linux/blob/master/include/math-emu/double.h#L29
  
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  #if _FP_W_TYPE_SIZE < 32 #error "Here's a nickel kid. Go buy yourself a real computer." #endif
  LOL!
  That isn't the same limitation I was thinking of, though.
- What was it, the ENIAC?
  
  Linux doesn't run on anything below a 386 because it requires a MMU.
  (Some people have made forks that can run on 286s etc., but those changes have never been part of the mainline kernel.)
  
  They tried running Linux on their ENIAC, but someone accidentally tipped over one of the crates of punch cards which has unfortunately set the project back a few months.
- We are Tandy buddies!
  Still looking for an original monitor.
  
  I used to have one of those! Well before I ever knew about Linux, but it was great fun making little stuff in BASIC and playing with actually floppy disks.
  
  I'm sad that my parents eventually forced me to get rid of it. At least I kept the keyboard, though.
- What we had that couldn't: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_PS/2_Model_30
  Work was getting rid of them so my dad bought it. Great machine, learned a ton.

I installed Tiny Core Linux on an old ass netbook laptop on which even Windows 7 kinda lagged. Went CLI only, no DE and made the laptop thousand times more usable. I've basically repurposed that laptop as an external hard drive for things I don't need backed up but good to have a backup of.

Needs some work on the cable management but no other notes, 5/7 build.

I see a SATA cable, so I'm guessing it will work fine.

Overkill.
I used to run a router on a 386 from a floppy disk.

You do not need a case and discrete GPU. Way above minimum requirements! :)

Man I love Lubuntu, it's such a tiny distro that makes even old as fuck machines semi functional for modern usage.
Even those weird ass atom netbooks work like a charm with it and you can actually do decent work on them!
And the best part is that the UI keeps being understandable by average windows users
Great distro,.10/10, would install on a Compaq laptop again
- Xubuntu brought a garbage Vista era system to usable levels for me for a dumb video I made a while ago, wasn't fast but definitely usable.

I must still have a Pentium S with Windows 98 back at my mom's house. Now I am wondering if it could run Linux.
- If you're not planning to run GUI
  
  I've seen videos of people running Damn Small Linux with a GUI on Pentium 1s.
  None of them are very recent, so I don't know how well 'modern' DSL would fare on a P1, but there are a few recent videos of people browsing the web using Dillo on Pentium 3s.

Linux is between the requirements of a raspberry pi pico and a raspberry pi zero I would say
Although some crazy person did get Linux running on an esp32 once
- There is a number of crabs that can run linux

That graphics card is too nice

Yeah don't plug that in
- Put it in rice first

I revived a friend's old laptop by installing Linux on it, and I told her that using Linux entitled her to a small amount of "nerd creds". Years later, she told me that it did end up eliciting mild approval from a woman who ended up being her partner for multiple years. The system works!

My Amilo L1310G likes this

But can you run Linux on hard drive controller chip?
- ye with mips emulation

I literally LOL'ed. Just wanted to say that

Some nails and coal are pretty enough.

Le potato

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