is there any modern-ish linux that runs on a pentium 100mhz

@lostnbronx 73mb ram gets a "maybe install more ram"? 😂 this toshiba is maxed out at 40mb..

@squirrel Yeah, it would be a little tough, but with tweaking, you might be able to put a usable version of Linux on there. I like Puppy. It was my first encounter with Linux!

@lostnbronx @squirrel I tend to be able to get a usable light distro on older machines, it's using the browsers that seem to sucks.
But a 100 mghtz machine should be put to rest... IMHO

@randynose @lostnbronx no, it's a machine with sb16 dedicated for dos games. i asked about putting Linux on it merely as a curiosity

@squirrel @lostnbronx
I've had really good luck with Dos Box for those kind of games.

If you want to play around with Puppy Linux, it's easy to run of a thumb drive, and you can boot into it on other machines.

@randynose @lostnbronx yeah dosbox works decently well with few exceptions, but i still prefer the original opl3 sound, especially when composing for adlib and such.

the pentium laptop i have predates usb so i can't use thumb drives.

@squirrel @randynose Is there an Ethernet port on it, or only a phone jack? What if you set it up as a dumb terminal, running the OS of another machine? It has, like, even less power than most dumb kiosk machines now, right? Am I misremembering, or wasn't there once a way to run an OS remotely, and the only thing the local machine did (or was able to do) was call it up and run the OS from there? It was slow, but it supposedly worked.

@lostnbronx @squirrel
David, SSH into it? Or something else?
But if he's just running old games, perhaps leaving it alone would be best. We've been eliminating machines "better" than this at work.

@randynose @squirrel (Randy, it's she/her according to her profile.) I think the very point here is to NOT junk the machine, but to get the original DOS gaming experience on a box from the era. It really sounds like a fun challenge!

@lostnbronx @squirrel

David, I wasn't suggesting that she junk the hardware, but I was implying that there might be some hardware out there that someone could get for cheap to do the same job, but perhaps better.

Squirrel, do you currently run a Linux box at all?

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