Post A9PycnU4X1qbC5tHYe by Tay0@fosstodon.org
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(DIR) Post #A9PyHBw4wM2seugjAm by kzimmermann@fosstodon.org
2021-07-18T15:54:49Z
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Found this chunky 2010-made boi eating dust on the curb while #dumpsterdiving. What distro should I install on it to make it useful again?It's got a (gasp!) single-core Celeron and 4GB RAM#askfedi
(DIR) Post #A9PyQgJ7O9r1SdzQie by Tay0@fosstodon.org
2021-07-18T15:56:32Z
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@kzimmermannGreat find! Something minimal like Bunsenlabs, Alpine or the like.
(DIR) Post #A9PyVDFcqZ1enBW6mu by werwolf@fosstodon.org
2021-07-18T15:57:18Z
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@kzimmermann Debian or Devuan. It may also a great opportunity to tinker with the BSD family. I particularly love OpenBSD, although FreeBSD seems to be more popular
(DIR) Post #A9PycnU4X1qbC5tHYe by Tay0@fosstodon.org
2021-07-18T15:58:38Z
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@kzimmermannOr go barebones Debian, Arch or Ubuntu and then no DE. Just use Openbox or Fluxbox.
(DIR) Post #A9PydPSHM8zYxXLO2S by werwolf@fosstodon.org
2021-07-18T15:58:41Z
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@kzimmermann Debian or Devuan. It may also be a great opportunity to tinker with the BSD family. I particularly love OpenBSD, although FreeBSD seems to be more popular
(DIR) Post #A9Pyx7V1pBHZ3w1pyq by AaronTheIssueGuy@fosstodon.org
2021-07-18T16:02:23Z
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@kzimmermann my personal favourite is PeppermintOS on older systems. Its somewhat outdated though because unfortunately the founder of the project died.
(DIR) Post #A9PzKBKrjCplcWGufo by tychosoft@fosstodon.org
2021-07-18T16:06:33Z
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@werwolf @kzimmermann I build my source packages to be devuan compatible, which works fine on devuan, debian, and even ubuntu. If I were deploying devices I needed to actually work reliably in the field, I would not use systemd. If not for things like Devuan and Alpine (and gentoo and void) I might well have abandoned linux for BSD entirely.
(DIR) Post #A9Q2pWL7z6eXbT1tNg by nixuser85@fosstodon.org
2021-07-18T16:45:46Z
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@kzimmermann I've got two laptops of similar vintage; Intel T7200, 2G RAM. I'm comfortably running #Devuan/#XFCE on each, and can even run a VM under #qemu/#kvm with up to 1024M.
(DIR) Post #A9Q35BY93715l1aUym by person@fosstodon.org
2021-07-18T16:48:39Z
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@kzimmermann Would you like it geeky or easy?
(DIR) Post #A9Q4hCkd8AWsRS7Wr2 by ClosedGL@fosstodon.org
2021-07-18T17:06:45Z
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@kzimmermann Artix with XFCE? That's what I use on all my computers
(DIR) Post #A9Q9fIgAcR2I1EwgvQ by darkstar@mastodon.nl
2021-07-18T18:02:06Z
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@kzimmermann Free- or OpenBSD
(DIR) Post #A9QFCRan04xqzR3IkS by sakkara@fosstodon.org
2021-07-18T19:04:27Z
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@kzimmermann Debian/Devuan, Void, Alpine, Arch/Artix or any BSD, if you wanna tinker; antiX if you don't. ;)
(DIR) Post #A9QLyb6LY54E6f9owa by macxcool@distrotoot.com
2021-07-18T20:20:22Z
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@kzimmermann Haiku, of course!
(DIR) Post #A9QPSqV3A624PipMJ6 by pkotrcka@nerdculture.de
2021-07-18T20:59:22Z
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@kzimmermann debian
(DIR) Post #A9QTb9dKJ7o5t9uqvo by rav3ndust@neighborli.xyz
2021-07-18T21:45:49.777042Z
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@kzimmermann Mint with xfce or MATE would be a good choice, but it should reasonably support anything with a light enough desktop environment.
(DIR) Post #A9QhtMTsg4boJ14dzE by kzimmermann@fosstodon.org
2021-07-19T00:25:57Z
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@person any! I'm literally just happy that I got hold of additional metal to experiment on, and I'm looking for some creativity. Geeky works too since I have no risk here
(DIR) Post #A9QikjkGuarzo5BxRI by kzimmermann@fosstodon.org
2021-07-19T00:35:36Z
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@nixuser85 nice! Can't wait to try on this one too!
(DIR) Post #A9Qio6XOcvkrMfm7t2 by kzimmermann@fosstodon.org
2021-07-19T00:36:04Z
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@macxcool now that's a challenge!
(DIR) Post #A9Qt3QJWNfVMaKEExk by xrasl@plaza.remolino.town
2021-07-18T16:01:06.225133Z
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@kzimmermann maybe maybe debian with lxde? puppy linux?
(DIR) Post #A9Qt3QqqNm9yFfoqu0 by kzimmermann@fosstodon.org
2021-07-19T02:31:00Z
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@xrasl i wonder how Puppy fares as a frugal install rather than a live medium (which is how I always used it)? I always felt its package manager was a little clonky to upgrade stuff