In college (so about a decade ago) I bought one of these and put Debian on it. I used it for a year to play Marathon, run XMMS, browse the web, and write OCaml

In college (so about a decade ago) I bought one of these and put Debian on it. I used it for a year to play Marathon, run XMMS, browse the web, and write OCaml for school. IIRC there was no driver for the Nvidia display chipset so it had to use software rendering but it still (barely) managed to keep up. Fun times! Later on I decided to install a more spiritually-appropriate OS and threw OpenBSD on it. It sat on my kitchen bar and didn't see much use until I ended up tossing it during a move last year. Great machine. My grandparents had a Mac catalog at the turn of the millennium that advertised these and boasted about how the processors outperformed P4s with double the clock speed. I didn't believe them back then but now I know better ;-)