Re: What current Linux will work on an Pentium 1 processor?

David wrote:
Is there a current Linux will work on an Pentium 1 processor? Eg. a very
old laptop that orig. ran Win 95.

I do not know about current, but I ran Red Hat Linux 9 on an old PC with 256
MBytes RAM and a 166 MHz Pentium processor. It worked, but it was too slow
and drove me nuts. With 256 MBytes RAM, it was not paging much at all;
anything 128 MBytes or more would have been as fast.

Now, RH9 is by no means current (discontinued at least 2 years ago), and
more up-to-date distributions are probably even more CPU hungry. So it will
depend on just how much RAM you have in there (less than 128 MBytes will
definitely result in too much paging) and how slow it can go and still be
considered as "working" by you.

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