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Are there any distros that could run on a pentium 2? (feddit.org)

submitted 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Edit: I am trying to put linux on a compaq armada 1700.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Did you use an archlinux32 i486 iso?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 months ago (1 children)

@nichtburningturtle nah, amd64 official arch linux

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Didn't know there were 64bit pentium 2 cpus.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I can't find anything to anything to support their assertion that a E5300 is a "Pentium 2", but the chip is from 2008, so it's not relevant to your situation. Maybe they meant it was a Pentium from the Core2Duo time, but that's still not a "Pentium 2".

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

My assumption was also that they meant Core2Duo, or "2M cache"