Edit: I am trying to put linux on a compaq armada 1700.
Is nobody gonna ask?!? Why do you have a pentium 2? I like old hardware as much or more than the next guy but man that’s old. And this from a guy who has a working Commodore 64 🤣
throwing Linux on ancient hardware is a time honored tradition
I’ve got a 500mhz Celeron from the P3 days, it runs OS/2 and has an ISA EPROM burner card in it.
Some time ago I scalvanged some old hardware my old school was gonna throw out.
I never even thought to ask “why”…
retro enthusiast community has been growing a lot in recent years, especially with youtube channels like 8-bit guy, LGR, MVG and such
I mean I guess. Just in my opinion a Pentium 2 is too new to be old and too old to be new. Something like 386 or a Coco2, that’s cool.
I deal with a lot of old hardware in my lab but sometimes it’s just too much trouble. But whatever floats your boat. Last thing I’ll be is judgey about what brings you happiness. I mean I’m currently playing with Proxmox on a 2013 Mac Pro because I think it’s fun. And some people (cough …cough… my wife) wonder why 🤣
I run Proxmox on a 2103 trashcan. It is awesome.
Frankly the power consumption of that thing x performance delivered will be just bad. Take for example this example, a more modern Pentium D vs a Pi:
If you don’t have any kind of attachment to the machine, just trash it, get a Pi or a second hand 8th Gen i5 HP Mini for around 80$ and enjoy. If you do have an attachment to the machine you may as well run some OS from the same era. https://winworldpc.com/library/operating-systems
I’m doing it for the memes
Shit, I’ve thrown out stuff several generations newer than that because it was too old.
Debian from 1998.
Spend $12 on this memory module and you’re g2g for almost anything.
Not Linux but Haiku would run on it I think.
i didnt see anyone mentioning puppy linux, its an option.
you might even be able to run a twm or openbox style GUI if you have enough ram.
NetBSD
Won’t work with much hardware
Works with plenty of hardware, especially something that would run on such a platform.
I have found it to lack support for WiFi and video acceleration
You want wifi and video acceleration on a P2?
Intel Atom
That’s not what OP asked about.
Far enough
I just jumped the gun a bit
Rule 1
Rule 1 applies to posts, not comments.
Overruled.
@nichtburningturtle I run Arch Linux on a Pentium 2 E5300 and with some system tweaks like using Dwm/St, less than 1000 packages and args on some software it run smoothly.
not this P2, I think OP is talking about the P2 from 1997, I had a P2 266MHz and was running it at 300 (75x4), 32MB of RAM, 4GB HD, it was the shit in 97
Did you use an archlinux32 i486 iso?
@nichtburningturtle nah, amd64 official arch linux
Didn’t know there were 64bit pentium 2 cpus.
I can’t find anything to anything to support their assertion that a E5300 is a “Pentium 2”, but the chip is from 2008, so it’s not relevant to your situation. Maybe they meant it was a Pentium from the Core2Duo time, but that’s still not a “Pentium 2”.
My assumption was also that they meant Core2Duo, or “2M cache”
I’m running antix on a Pentium 2 with 512mb ram and it’s performing quite nicely
This has 32mb
Hasn’t that been unmaintained for years? Puppy is the spiritual successor.
It is really just an AntiX spin now
It was updated this year. They moved on from the mini-CD limit (50MB?) to a regular CD (700MB). Spiritual successor, newer target.
I have Tiny Core running on a PII 333MHz machine with 128MB of RAM
Fli4l should. Back when it was new it was meant to fit on a floppy and run on 3’86 machines. It’s for running a home router.
Fli4l is still around?! Crazy. I used that back in 2002 or so to turn an old i386 with 3 ISA HP 100Mbit network cards into a router + fileserver combo. Good times.
