Works fine with Linux Mint. Sent from my iPad
> On May 21, 2019, at 8:06 AM, Tomas Kuchta <[email protected]> > wrote: > > 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 _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
