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Someone ran a modern Linux OS on a 30-year-old CPU, and it's surprisingly usable
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this post was submitted on 16 Nov 2025
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That "Someone" turns out to just be Action Retro. Classic. But then again, maybe everyone isn't already watching his wacky content regularly like I am.
Let's put tiny core Linux on literally anything I find at an ewaste recycler :-)
Or Haiku 🍂
He's on the fediverse too. @ActionRetro@bitbang.social
Aye! I was rummaging around his socials hoping he was on peertube as well, but alas.
Not yet. But I don't think it would take much to get him doing it. He already runs his own mastodon instance and a number of other services himself.
He got Wi-Fi working on it as well too!
He should give MenuetOS or KolibriOS a try instead of Tiny Core - could probably run with only 64MB of RAM instead of 128
Yeah it's super weird the way this article was written, it feels AI almost but I can't put my finger on it.