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Is a old raspberry pi viable for anything with Linux? (programming.dev)
submitted 1 week ago by vrek@programming.dev to c/linux@lemmy.ml
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I don't expect much but I found an old pi I bought probably 2016(may of been 2017). It was supposed to be a pi-hole but was never able to get the dns forwarding to work on my modem. It still works but wanted to somehow convert it to a regular distro(it's based on a micro-SD and I don't have any more microsd readers). I wanted to set it up as a basic system I could ssh into a terminal. Not expecting anything fancy or even graphic based. A lot of stuff I want to learn/practice "work" on windows but are native to Linux, like vim/neovim nmap gcc etc. Is this feasible? Am I under estimating what's possible with it?

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[-] vrek@programming.dev 1 points 1 week ago

Yeah, I tried virtual box on my main system and kept running into odd problems with every distro. For example Debian had a full second of input lag, with 2 cores of a 13th Gen i5 and 16 gb of ram dedicated to it. Kali would install and I ejected the "installation medium" aka the iso and reboot and the virtual box couldn't see any bootable drive. I tried fedora and it kept freezing on installing(sat at like 35% for over 3 hours)

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