Hey! My first venture into the Unix-like world was on a Pentium 133 gifted to me by my 2nd cousin. He introduced me to the open source world via OpenBSD. OpenBSD will always hold a special place in my heart but I absolutely eat up anything and everything open source.
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As other OS's continue to bloat up on hardware requirements, Linux takes new levels of the "low ground" with hardware footprint that runs on an amazing assortment of devices.
I remember being similarly blown away by the Pi in terms of its form factor and simplicity, then again with the Steam Deck in how it is really bringing Linux gaming forward from tiny niche titles all the way up to new AAA releases.
I remember trying DSL or Puppy, but even decade-old hardware can still run nicely with XFCE or KDE environments these days. It's awesome
I remember using one called crunch bang on my 1.6 ghz Sempron machine.
Crunchbang was my JAM around 2010ish. Ran it on my old Thinkpad T23 and then T42. What a great project. I went looking for it a couple months back but it’s no longer maintained. I’ve just switched back to Arch and I’m happy enough with that.
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This article says it works with a risc-v vm of some kind to implement an mmu.
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Afaik you can't run a full OS so I'm not sure what OP is talking about.
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just started using a pine time watch, freeRTOS and its derivatives are awesome.
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