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Are there any distros that could run on a pentium 2?
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Frankly the power consumption of that thing x performance delivered will be just bad. Take for example this example, a more modern Pentium D vs a Pi:
If you don't have any kind of attachment to the machine, just trash it, get a Pi or a second hand 8th Gen i5 HP Mini for around 80$ and enjoy. If you do have an attachment to the machine you may as well run some OS from the same era. https://winworldpc.com/library/operating-systems
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That's interesting, I've never heard of anyone actually concerned about the power consumption of their PC before, but I guess it makes sense if you live somewhere that it's quite expensive or just don't have much money... or want to be greener I guess.
I don't live in a place with particularly high energy prices, but I've been reading about countless complaints about home labbers changing to new hardware because of that.
The thing is that, even if the power is cheap a Pi when you're comparing a PII to a RPi 4 or a modern machine with a "T" CPU if you've the money to spend on the new thing you'll way better, faster CPU, faster RAM, less noise, less power, more modern features, less software issues... at certain point it makes no sense to run that old hardware. Did you ever try to SSH into a Core Duo machine with a Ed25519 key? The CPU doesn't have the modern crypto extensions making the login unbearably slow, similar happens with other SSL stuff.