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Reminds me of the hacked-up Windows XP Service Pack 3 images you'd find on warez sites. I fondly remember XP "Black Edition" with custom themes. They also had

by branon 4y ago

Reminds me of the hacked-up Windows XP Service Pack 3 images you'd find on warez sites. I fondly remember XP "Black Edition" with custom themes. They also had it configured to receive the Windows XP POSReady security updates, which made the system serviceable long after the general EOL date.

syntaxing 4y ago
Super nostalgic! I remember them having a lite edition which ran noticeably faster on my netbook
- comprev 4y ago
  nLite was popular in the carputer scene. I ran a stripped down XP version on a low power industrial PC (Atom CPU, 1GB RAM, laptop disk) hooked up to a Lilliput touchscreen up front. Good times!
  - radicalbyte 4y ago
    Also in the "people who want a fast PC and don't want all the extra shite MS keep bundling". Miss those days. Seems like even Linux installs are monsters nowadays.
    - genewitch 4y ago
      gentoo (and begrudgingly, i'll admit ubuntu server) are really light. I run web app servers on mostly gentoo, ubuntu if it requires docker, and a base install is 30-50MB of ram used. Right now my cgi, syncthing, and web fileserver is using 125MB. misskey server is using 725, i think it uses 175 on boot, so possible memory leak there. matrix server is using 363MB. Mattermost server been up for 3 months and is using 383MB. if you remove all the source files and cruft from a gentoo install when you're done setting it up, the actual system is less than 1GB on disk, and as mentioned, 30-50MB of memory used. Ubuntu is similar, although it does include more helper apps so the disk weight is higher.
      - usrn 4y ago
        As long as you don't need glibc Alpine is extremely small. The rootfs on their site is something like 3MB.
  - accrual 4y ago
    I credit nLite with improving my understanding of Windows. I was educational to see all the components listed with tooltips about their function and dependencies. It was like building your own custom copy of Windows. At one point I think I had a copy of XP running using 50MB of RAM at the desktop.
- nunez 4y ago
  definitely installed xp netbook edition, and it was faster than full boat xp but still a chonker compared to whatever the popular linux distro for netbooks was back then
IceWreck 4y ago
Pretty sure they still do those for Windows 11 and so on
OsintOtter69 4y ago
xeromal 4y ago
A trip down memory lane. I loved my pimped out XP black edition with all the addons and features.
russellendicott 4y ago
> POSReady There's a name I haven't heard for a long time. I used to work in POS and remember getting big license packs of POSReady in the MS Gold Partner Program loot packs.

by branon 4y ago

syntaxing 4y ago

Super nostalgic! I remember them having a lite edition which ran noticeably faster on my netbook

comprev 4y ago
nLite was popular in the carputer scene. I ran a stripped down XP version on a low power industrial PC (Atom CPU, 1GB RAM, laptop disk) hooked up to a Lilliput touchscreen up front. Good times!
- radicalbyte 4y ago
  Also in the "people who want a fast PC and don't want all the extra shite MS keep bundling". Miss those days. Seems like even Linux installs are monsters nowadays.
  - genewitch 4y ago
    gentoo (and begrudgingly, i'll admit ubuntu server) are really light. I run web app servers on mostly gentoo, ubuntu if it requires docker, and a base install is 30-50MB of ram used. Right now my cgi, syncthing, and web fileserver is using 125MB. misskey server is using 725, i think it uses 175 on boot, so possible memory leak there. matrix server is using 363MB. Mattermost server been up for 3 months and is using 383MB. if you remove all the source files and cruft from a gentoo install when you're done setting it up, the actual system is less than 1GB on disk, and as mentioned, 30-50MB of memory used. Ubuntu is similar, although it does include more helper apps so the disk weight is higher.
    - usrn 4y ago
      As long as you don't need glibc Alpine is extremely small. The rootfs on their site is something like 3MB.
- accrual 4y ago
  I credit nLite with improving my understanding of Windows. I was educational to see all the components listed with tooltips about their function and dependencies. It was like building your own custom copy of Windows. At one point I think I had a copy of XP running using 50MB of RAM at the desktop.
nunez 4y ago
definitely installed xp netbook edition, and it was faster than full boat xp but still a chonker compared to whatever the popular linux distro for netbooks was back then

IceWreck 4y ago

Pretty sure they still do those for Windows 11 and so on

OsintOtter69 4y ago

xeromal 4y ago

A trip down memory lane. I loved my pimped out XP black edition with all the addons and features.

russellendicott 4y ago

> POSReady There's a name I haven't heard for a long time. I used to work in POS and remember getting big license packs of POSReady in the MS Gold Partner Program loot packs.