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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    Hell yeah! Love seeing old hardware like this still running a modern OS.

    With Linux, if your hardware is a decade old, you’ve barely even reached middle-age.

    Meanwhile Windows 11 won’t even allow an official install on hardware that’s 4-5 years old.

    Long live Linux & FOSS ✊

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    thats my current laptop

    Edit: im exagerating but I really have 20-yr 32-bit Dell laptops running minimal debian linux. and my current laptop is 10+ yrs old Lenovo which I already replaced its screen, rams, keyboard, bluetooth, usb ports… and it’s still working flawlessly for daily tasks, video/music editing, coding and programming, internet browsing :D

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    I suspect my first Linux ran on an 80mhz AMD K6. I did however also run it on a retired dual core UltraSPARC some years later I had somehow gotten my hands on. It might have been faster, but at that time it sure felt slow. And it sounded like a train passing through when it was on. In retrospect installing Gentoo on it was an optimistic endeavour.

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      Ackshually… I also had an AMD K5 with Performance Rating 100.

      K6 was 166 MHz and up, Pentium II competitor.

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    Are you using systemd? Because 317 MB of RAM is really low for a normal Debian installation with XFce. At my mom’s 2 GB ram laptop, it uses 850 MB on a cold boot.

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      It is because it is 32 bit. You can run a 32 bit distro on your machine too if you really want.

      You can get a full Trinity desktop on Q4OS in 130 MB of RAM (32 bit edition).

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        I don’t think the difference between 32bit and 64bit is 2x in memory sizes, it’s way less than that. I run Q4OS, it runs at 350 MBs here.

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          Are you running Trinity or KDE?

          Not sure why I get so much less unless it is that. Or are you saying you run Trinity 64 bit?

          I agree that 32 bit is not often going to be 50% less in practice. Sometimes I think we should be running 64 bit kernels with 32 bit userland.

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            Trinity of course. That’s the point of low end computing with Q4OS. :)

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    Those are better specs than what I used throughout college (an Asus Eee PC running Debian with Xfce and Openbox). Not a powerful machine, but I absolutely loved that thing.

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    I’m planning on revitalizing and bringing this old Itautec to the 21st century

    I think it was born in the 21st century? From this it looks like the first Celeron M was in 2004, and the first at that clockspeed was 2005.

    Also, 2GB of RAM is plenty for many purposes - that’s more than any Raspberry Pi before the Pi 4 had!

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      Actually… You’re right about the 21st century lmao. I just wanted an excuse to quote Metal Gear Solid

      Also, the issue is not ram itself, of course, 2GB is enough for lots of fun on Linux, it’s the CPU that’s killing me

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    Ran Ubuntu 8 with Compiz and integrated graphics on a Pentium 4 with 512MB RAM. It was an awful machine, but Linux made it great to use. I still miss the peak of GTK2 + Emerald.

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    I had slackware on my 386DX 40. 4mb ram. It was kinda short-lived. I never got my modem working. I got a book, paged thought it. Learning shit was hard in the 90’s Internet.

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    Are we competing again?

    I’m proud to be setting up a rhel10 desktop, as it’ll be the first time I ran Linux as a desktop in 30 years of a Linux/Unix career.

    To rephrase: I ran XFree86 on a 4mb i386 machine 30 years ago.

    What do I win?

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      I didnt have the intention to compete, was just proud of seeing this 2007 laptop running a modern OS again!