I bought this machine with the original intent to play old DOS games in their original glory. Anyway, we managed to play music and even host a webpage! See her fantastically detailed write-up here.
The version 4.4.10 of DSL we used was released in Nov 2008. It used the kernel version 2.4.31 that was released in June 2005 which is a dinosaur by today’s standards.
Throughout the entire time, the question of whether the theoretical answer of 486 is actually true lingered in my head. I did some research and found out someone actually installed Gentoo Linux with a modern kernel on a 486 PC. At least someone said it was possible although he did not give any hard evidence :( He advised that one should use a modern PC to do the source code compilation which I’ll show later. A Science Project: ‘Make the 486 Great Again!’ - Modern Linux in an ancient PC
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A Science Project: 'Make the 486 Great Again!' - Modern Linux in an ancient PC
