• 𝘋𝘪𝘳𝘬@lemmy.ml
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    1 year ago

    I’d always go as minimal as possible to have the most resources available for things I want to run, not for things I have to run.

  • iks@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Last time I booted tinycore was on my Compaq TC1000 with the quantum cpu transmeta crusoe 👌

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    1 year ago

    I can still remember running Windows 3.1 on my Windows 98 Pentium machine (booted into DOS 7.0). The sheer responsiveness… In a blink of an eye the system was ready, apps would open. The last time I felt this kind of responsive speed was running KolibriOS: http://www.kolibrios.org/en/

    I’ve run plenty of low resource OSes/Distros on low-end hardware but… there’s nothing sweeter than running low resource OSes on high end hardware - it feels like the future (the way it was suppose to be).

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      1 year ago

      This will blow your mind, but datacenters still buy tapes. It’s just stupid cheap. In the future, chemical storage by DNA or something similar might play the same role for cold storage.