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Yep, I’m guilty of doing this sort of thing… take a 13 year-old piece of kit like an SGI Indy, and chuck Linux 2.6 with KDE 3.5 on it. But how about this…

A group of individuals, with seemingly too much time on their hands, have successfully managed to run Windows XP on as little as 8MHz clock speed and 16MB RAM. See this page for more details.

Now I’m really tempted to get my 386 back out of the garage, and try KDE 3.5 on it.

Update: I tried this the other day. After spoon-feeding the box with floppies (nfsroot didn’t want to work, largely because the eepro driver was looking for my LAN card on IRQ 11 instead of 10), and spending all day watching tar -xjvpf stage3-hardened-x86-2005.1.tar.bz2 run its course, I’ve come to the conclusion I had before I attempted the procedure.

With a speed of just over 4 (bogo)Mil instructions/sec, and numerous 80486+ instructions creeping into the Python and sshd binaries, I’ve decided it’s not worthwhile. I might try kernel 2.4 on it later (it used to run Slackware 8.0 w/ kernel 2.4.18 just fine), but right now it’s my Gentoo-powered footrest.

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