Tim: > > I've still got a 16 bit motherboard here, it's all but useless, it's > > just sitting on the pile of "what can I do with it?" things. Every now > > and then I'd try something on it for the sake of it. Most distros > > *require* 32 bit hardware, these days. You can't even start an > > installation on it. So a lot of old stuff has already been abandoned > > by everyday users, because they had to.
Samuel Sieb: > Linux never ran on 16-bit CPUs, The minimum was a 386. > Now, most distros require 64-bit CPUs. Off by one (MSB bit). Binary error! :-\ Yes, I should have said everything's 64 bit now, and 32 bit has fallen by the wayside. And nothing but some peculiar Linuxes, like a very old Linux Mint was willing to try and install on it (and it was as slow as molasses). Anyway, the PC is next to useless for anything these days. Just for the hell of it, I did try putting Windows 98SE on it, which was as bad as I remember. Though I expected better, since this PC was several years younger than the era of Win98 and had more RAM than they usually did back then. I also looked at BeOS and Haiku, not that they could do anything useful on it, either. I suspect the last Linux I ran on it was FC4 (20 years ago), then it was just left sitting on the shelf. I don't recall it being that painfully slow back when I did use it. I did have an even older ancient DOS box still in use in the garden until a few years ago, it had rat poison in it. The fan hole was the right size to let them in, but not bigger animals. -- uname -rsvp Linux 3.10.0-1160.119.1.el7.x86_64 #1 SMP Tue Jun 4 14:43:51 UTC 2024 x86_64 (yes, this is the output from uname for this PC when I posted) Boilerplate: All unexpected mail to my mailbox is automatically deleted. I will only get to see the messages that are posted to the mailing list. -- _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@lists.fedoraproject.org Do not reply to spam, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure/new_issue
