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Hi!

Someone asked me to revive their 20 year old laptop as its no longer working on their installation of windows XP.

This baby has around 512MB of Ram, 1.6 GHZ Intel Atom.

This is my first time doing something with hardware older than myself so I'd love some insight from people around.

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[–] Tuuktuuk@piefed.ee 1 points 2 days ago

Just use something where you compile everything from sources in a way that just works, such as NetBSD. Not technically a distro, but whatever, should do the job just fine :)