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From: The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid>
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Subject: Re: What old Linux distro to run on a old Pentium III PC?
Date: Mon, 23 Jun 2025 18:53:46 +0100
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On 23/06/2025 01:38, Peter 'Shaggy' Haywood wrote:
> Groovy hepcat c186282 was jivin' in comp.os.linux.misc on Fri, 20 Jun
> 2025 03:06 pm. It's a cool scene! Dig it.
> 
>>> At Thu, 19 Jun 2025 21:37:07 +0200 "Matthew Camilleri"
>>> <bunkertoshimatty@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> What old Linux distro would be cool to run on this thing?
> 
>    [Snippitty doo-dah.]
> 
>>     Original IBM-PCs ... ummmmmm ...... probably better
>>     with 386's on up.
> 
>    Yes, indeed; especially since Linux has never run at all on lower than
> a 386. It was originally designed for that very architecture.
> 
IIRC the only couple of Unices that ran on a 286 were Xenix and Venix
But ports to 386 were many and various.


-- 
Future generations will wonder in bemused amazement that the early 
twenty-first century’s developed world went into hysterical panic over a 
globally average temperature increase of a few tenths of a degree, and, 
on the basis of gross exaggerations of highly uncertain computer 
projections combined into implausible chains of inference, proceeded to 
contemplate a rollback of the industrial age.

Richard Lindzen