50MB operating system can resurrect your old PC(www.makeuseof.com)
36 pointsby makerdiety6 hours ago7 comments
  • wildzzz3 hours ago
    Unless your PC is older than like twenty years, there's absolutely no reason you must use DSL or any distro that includes pre-x86_64 support. Gnome3 might be a little heavy on super crappy hardware but anything that comes prepackaged with XFCE is perfect for an older PC (Xubuntu, Linux Mint, Debian, etc).
  • iamnotherean hour ago
    Tiny Core requires less than 50 MB of RAM and a 486. I like DSL but I’ve come to appreciate Tiny Core more. If you have a use case for an extremely light Linux system I recommend it. (I like it for single app GUI VMs.)
  • asveikau3 hours ago
    A decade old PC didn't come with Windows 7, which shipped 17 years ago. It would have windows 10, which shipped 11 years ago, or conceivably 8.1 but I would doubt it. 4gb ram is also too small for that era.
  • Beijinger5 hours ago
    Bodhi Linux may be a better idea: https://www.bodhilinux.com/

    Not sure if it will get more updates in the future.

    I may consider this for the future: https://github.com/JeffHoogland/moksha

    • UncleSlacky4 hours ago
      Or go straight to the distro DSL was forked from - antiX, which has a Debian Trixie-based 32-bit ISO (as well as the expected 64-bit version):

      https://antixlinux.com/download/

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    • dmuth4 hours ago
      I literally saw this in the first paragraph of the website and it feels like it was written with AI:

      > It’s more than just software—it’s a statement.

      I know us engineers aren't the best writers, but when I see things like this, it feels like they're not even trying to write their own content.

      • Beijinger4 hours ago
        I don't know who wrote this, but it is unlikely AI wrote it.

        The main guy is an older engineer with a lot of health struggles. And yes, he is American. Born American as far as I can tell. His health was once so bad, he asked for private donations. Unfortunately, I was not aware of it at that time; otherwise I would have posted it to HN.

  • dist-epoch3 hours ago
    I'm running Windows 10 on a 18 year old PC (2008 Intel Q9300, 8 GB RAM)

    It works for browsing the web and various non-intensive apps.

  • TathagataShakya6 hours ago
    [dead]
  • crusty6 hours ago
    Core i, 4GB RAM is old? Naw dawg.
    • derwiki4 hours ago
      In my day, we used a boot disk to restart without Windows 95 so we could run Doom with 8mb RAM