Atom 550 is basic 2010-ish 64-bit x86-64 low end CPU. As such it should work with any mainstream modern distribution. Be it Fedora, Ubuntu, Debian, openSuSE, .... In no particular order.
It is probably going to be very sluggish by any contemporary measure. And, it does not support modern virtualization and does not support AES instructions if you want to use it for anything to do with encryption (networking, storage, etc.) Hope it helps, -T On Mon, May 20, 2019, 19:30 Michael Barnes <[email protected]> wrote: > I got an SSD for this beast, now waiting on a power cord. In the meantime, > trying to decide on what distribution I want to load. I was originally > going to go with CentOS, but not sure if that is doable on this Atom > processor. I saw a recommendation for Puppy Linux, but Puppy became very > confusing very fast. Once installed, this will run headless. No GUI or > anything is necessary. Just need basic network stuff like dhcp, ntp, gpsd, > and maybe a lightweight webserver for some static pages and possible file > downloads. It will not be connected to the Internet, just a local LAN. > > (Yes, I've used a RaspberryPi for this in the past. I just want to use this > box this time.) > > I appreciate your suggestions. > > Michael > _______________________________________________ > PLUG mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug > _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
