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I've recently tried to give new life to and old Pentium 166MMX with 80MB of RAM. It has Windows 2000 installed and I tried many small Linux distributions. DSL
by forinti 5y ago
I've recently tried to give new life to and old Pentium 166MMX with 80MB of RAM.
It has Windows 2000 installed and I tried many small Linux distributions. DSL runs fine.
You have to lower your expectations, but you can have a nice little system to play around with. You also won't have a modern browser, but, even if you did, you wouldn't have enough RAM or CPU to use most sites.
My conclusion is that if you want to keep such a machine working, you would have to find some specific job for it to do, such as monitoring, honeypot, playing a specific game, text editing, etc.
- anthk 5y agoThis has software a bit newer than Damn Small Linux: http://delicate-linux.net/ http://delicate-linux.net/ Try compiling a modern TLS under /opt, compile and link a new mbedtls library, and try compiling Dillo from Mercurial. Edit ~/.dillo/dillorc in order to set the User Agent to either PSP or Opera Mini 3. Or better, Lynx. The Lynx one. Web pages got lovely formatted where supported: http_user_agent="Lynx/2.8.9rel.1 libwww-FM/2.14 SSL-MM/1.4.1 OpenSSL/1.1.1k" Also, edit ~/.dillo/dillorc in order to make cookies work. For example: DEFAULT DENY .news.ycombinator.com ACCEPT .news.ycombinator.com ACCEPT_SESSION Bam!! Modernish web "support" for your browser. HN should work, and a lot more too.
- LargoLasskhyfv 5y agoHm. Interesting site, but reading the recommended configuration I'm wondering what they mean by m68060@100Mhz? FPGA, one of the maybe few 100s turbocards worldwide, or what? :-)
- anthk 5y agoThey had some release for m68k machines I think. On Delicate Linux, once you get libressl at /opt and try to configure mbedtls to read "libressl" before SSL, Dillo would have a modern crypto stack and it would be really good for old machines.