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Dust off that old Pentium, Linux fans: It's Elive

Jeffrey Nonken
Meh

Well... I've got a 1GHz Pentium III machine I wouldn't mind finding a use for. Granted that it's probably not worth it, but it's such a cute little compact mini-desktop that I can't stand to toss it.

I have to grant that because I just (last weekend) installed Mint Linux 19 Cinnamon x64 on a 5ish-year-old Lenovo laptop (i3 2.53GHz, 8GB RAM, SSD-240) and I'm running a personal Subversion server and remotely accessing it via VNC as I type this. It's sitting on an otherwise empty shelf in my closet and connected via 2.4GHz WiFi.

So the Cool Gadget Nerd in me wants to run this low-resource-requirement Linux on the PIII, but the Practical Geek keeps reminding me that I have another i3 laptop looking for something to do other than collect dust, and why do I need an ancient PIII desktop computer again?

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