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Re:The Old Computer Challenge by jandrese on Wednesday July 07, 2021 @02:14PM (#27764135)
A good SSD would take some of the bite out of that 512MB RAM requirement. Swapping to SSD is much less painful than swapping to a slow laptop HDD.

The single core CPU only requirement makes finding working hardware quite a challenge. Core2 era chips were usually dual core, and the single core options were mostly put in trash that people have already thrown away.

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Re:The Old Computer Challenge by anthk on Thursday July 08, 2021 @12:43PM (#27774498)
ZRAM makes 512MB really bareable, as if you had 1GB.

I used a ZipitZ2 with 32MB and ZRAM, I could even watch MPEG/DIVX videos on it with mplayer and multitask over CLI with streaming music.

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