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Originally Posted by JayByrd
Sure, it's unusable as a "daily driver" with a full-fledged DE. But my old (1998) AMD K6-2 that I linked to above works perfectly well as a headless "appliance" running dnsmasq, ntpd, CUPS, etc. for the LAN. 
Also, anything Pentium III or better can be repurposed to do crunching for science apps, via BOINC. (All of the astronomy BOINC projects I contribute to still offer i686 versions.) |
This P-II is very usable at acceptable speed with slackware-14.0 and xfce as 'full-fledged DE'
But.... slackware-15.0 == no-go 'cus 266Mhz and only 256M of RAM just ain't enough.
