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I used a modern-day 250MB Linux OS, and it was a real struggle
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A little while ago, I reported on how someone got a modern-day Linux distro running on a 30-year-old CPU. The key here is that it was a modern distro; while the tinkerer could have easily dug through the annals of time and pulled out a kernel so far back that it'd count as archaeology, they instead opted for the most recent release of a distro.
The distro they selected was Tiny Core Linux, and you can see why they chose that by taking a peek at the software itself. You can get it up and running with a file that's around 20MB, which makes it super lightweight. And while the end result was still a little bit laggy, getting a brand-new OS running on a CPU from 1995 was still amazing.
This got me thinking: what's the operating system like to use? Well, I gave it a go, and let's just say it was a real struggle.