What's the OLDEST computer you have installed linux on?

[jelle_]

i only installed linux at two machines, but the slowest was an pentium 3 1000 MHz 384 mb ram. it is currently broken

[HermanAB]

A circa 1995 Sparc Station. The Linux version is called 'Splack' and is unmaintained now.

Herman

[Macchi]

Now revived in its fourth reincarnation, I still have a lovely Samsung laptop Pentium II 300MHz 168MB memory 40GB drive (was 3GB) from 1999.
It has been running Ubuntu 5.04 to 9.04 with some tweaks.

PS: There is no logical explanation. That computer has been kept alive mostly as a thin client due to an excellent keyboard and - have to admit - for sentimental reasons.

[mingtien]

A 25 MHz 386, with 4 MB RAM and a 105 MB hard drive, SVGA Greyscale monitor (that's black and white for those of you under 30).

It ran the Linux kernel 0.12 when that came out (early 1992), and kept running Linux until August 1993, when I replaced it with a 486-33 with 16 MB RAM and 2 130 MB hard drives (and a 15" colour NEC MultiSync monitor!).

[trentscott4]

A Dell Inspiron 630 too underpowered to be a frisbee.

[Dragonbite]

I'll have to get the model number, but it is a Pentium I w/MMX chip at 233 MHz and I maxed it out at 128 MB of RAM.

I've had Fluxbuntu, TinyMe, DSL and Suse 9.1 installed on it. The Suse 9.1 was KDE and it actually worked ... alright. Slow as molassis but anything running on this is going to be.

I am currently looking at putting Ubuntu Server on it for a portable demonstration box.

[linutic]

My first Linux box was a CAF Aqualite II laptop. 386SX 25MHz, 4MB RAM, 120MB HDD. 640x480 passive greyscale screen, some CL abomination for the graphics (never got X working on it; played lots of sasteroids tho! I ran Slackware with kernel 1.3-something. I had *no idea* what I was doing but I thought it was the coolest thing in the world when my little laptop said "going multiuser"

[toupeiro]

I wanna say the oldest may have been a Sparc Station Ultra40, but the oldest that I currently still use is a circa 1998 Toshiba Libretto 110CT running Xubuntu. The true predecessor to the Netbook.

[Dark Aspect]

Slowest machine I have ever had Linux running on was a 266 Mhz, slowest one I have now is 400 Mhz. Performance on the 266 Mhz was completely horrible but I didn't try DSL.

Fastest machine I have every seen Linux on was a AMD 4400 X2 and the fastest machine I have running is in my sig. Performance was incredible on the 4400.

[kjkrum]

I installed Slackware via serial console on a 110 MHz SparcStation 5 salvaged from an early Kodak digital photo kiosk. I also have the matching touch-screen CRT, but I've never tried to make that work...