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It's nowhere near as impressive, but I kept a PII running as a server for a very long time. The Pentium Pro-PIII era was an interesting time because USB had ju
by dehrmann 5y ago
It's nowhere near as impressive, but I kept a PII running as a server for a very long time.
The Pentium Pro-PIII era was an interesting time because USB had just shown up, PCI was commonplace, FPUs and SIMD were now standard. Many x86 Linux builds target i686, so it's the the oldest PC you can reasonably run modern Linux on without much hassle.
- zozbot234 5y agoI'm pretty sure that modern software projects like Firefox need special patches to work on PIII-era hardware. The Debian versions of Firefox for i686 do include these patches, so they ought to work provided that the system has enough RAM.