Edit: I am trying to put linux on a compaq armada 1700.
Shit, I’ve thrown out stuff several generations newer than that because it was too old.
@nichtburningturtle The Pentium II is 32-bit and possesses an MMU, so provided you have adequate memory, pretty much any 32-bit distro such as puppy linux or antix should work fine. Newer Ubuntu which is now 64-bit only will not.
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gentoo. i’m not even gonna look this up but i’d be surprised if immolo hasn’t installed in that platform yet ;)
I installed gentoo on a pentium D it took 5 days to compile and to setup, with distcc.
Why not cross-compile it?
Cause i wanted to see how long it would take
Is nobody gonna ask?!? Why do you have a pentium 2? I like old hardware as much or more than the next guy but man that’s old. And this from a guy who has a working Commodore 64 🤣
throwing Linux on ancient hardware is a time honored tradition
I’ve got a 500mhz Celeron from the P3 days, it runs OS/2 and has an ISA EPROM burner card in it.
I never even thought to ask “why”…
Some time ago I scalvanged some old hardware my old school was gonna throw out.
NetBSD
Won’t work with much hardware
Works with plenty of hardware, especially something that would run on such a platform.
I have found it to lack support for WiFi and video acceleration
You want wifi and video acceleration on a P2?
Frankly the power consumption of that thing x performance delivered will be just bad. Take for example this example, a more modern Pentium D vs a Pi:
If you don’t have any kind of attachment to the machine, just trash it, get a Pi or a second hand 8th Gen i5 HP Mini for around 80$ and enjoy. If you do have an attachment to the machine you may as well run some OS from the same era. https://winworldpc.com/library/operating-systems
