You understimate what we accomplished with 512MB of RAM
in early 00's. Use a lightweight DE, or no DE at all.
I use cwm+st under Void and OpenBSD and it flies.
Yes, 512MB might still be usable with a 32-bit distro, as was used in the early 2000s.
My Athlon had 256MB and it ran Kopete and KDE3 fine.
Re:The Old Computer Challenge
by deepdmistry on Thursday July 08, 2021 @06:52AM
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I had 128 and was still fine, in fact I remember the first day i felt it was so fast lol
Re:The Old Computer Challenge
by technothrasher on Thursday July 08, 2021 @08:45PM
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My old Sun 3/60 ran X11R4 with twm just fine in 24MB... and I had to walk up hill to school in the snow, both ways!
I remember the insane improvement I got from upgrading my Amiga 1200 from 18 to 130 MB RAM. If I'd still had it, then I'd be more than happy to use that -- I tried something similar around '05 and a 50 Mhz 68030 was more than enough for most of my daily stuff back then.
The biggest hurdle would probably be a modern SSH-client.
There are SSH and TLS clients for the Amiga in Aminet.
You may need a 68040 tho.
You can actually reduce your RAM easily by booting with the mem=512M boot option. Though IME this tends to make even a lightweight distro grind to a halt; you need at least 1G for even the barest usefulness.