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[-] Robin@lemmy.world 185 points 10 months ago

This is what happens to your computer if you allow Rust in the kernel. /s

[-] kubica@fedia.io 53 points 10 months ago

To be fair Its lifetime had ended, so rust took the ownership.

[-] TabbsTheBat@pawb.social 56 points 10 months ago

You guys run a motherboard? Im just running 2 diodes and a vacuum tube to manually type in all the 1s and 0s that make up the linux kernel /j

[-] tetris11@lemmy.ml 39 points 10 months ago

That's nothing, I have a group of ravens who fly around in strict RISC-V formations, giving me shiny bits from time to time all part of the ramdisk boot sequence

[-] jol@discuss.tchncs.de 22 points 10 months ago
[-] TrickDacy@lemmy.world 4 points 10 months ago
[-] tetris11@lemmy.ml 5 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

BirdFS is a pretty efficient file system, in the sense that it retrieves items from an infinite disk that you didn't even know you wanted. The read speed is several times a day, and the write speed I'm still currently waiting on a metric there

[-] GroundedGator@lemmy.world 51 points 10 months ago

I didn't think rust was required

[-] JasonDJ@lemmy.zip 27 points 10 months ago

Rust has been a part of the kernel since 6.8.

[-] qprimed@lemmy.ml 36 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

anyone else felt the impending finger slice in that photo? case looks pissed and out for flesh.

[-] Sabata11792@ani.social 26 points 10 months ago

The PC will not boot without a blood sacrifice. This one is just extra thirsty.

[-] Evil_Shrubbery@lemm.ee 9 points 10 months ago

There are people out there powering their PC with electricity ... what a bunch of environmentally unfriendly weirdos.

I just top up my BSU (blood supply unit) daily and it purrs (in Latin) like a charm.

[-] PolarKraken@programming.dev 17 points 10 months ago

Yes, this one has tasted blood before. You can tell by the way that it is.

[-] azha@lemm.ee 7 points 10 months ago

War makes you unrecognizable, buddy.

[-] i_am_not_a_robot@feddit.uk 34 points 10 months ago

I think you'll find that's the recommended spec, not the minimum requirements.

[-] madame_gaymes@programming.dev 5 points 10 months ago

Indeed, I see a gfx card in there, and cables.

[-] grue@lemmy.world 28 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Very funny, but I actually used to own a computer that didn't meet the minimum requirements for Linux.

(Not my pic, but the same model.)

[-] ozymandias117@lemmy.world 13 points 10 months ago
[-] grue@lemmy.world 21 points 10 months ago
#if _FP_W_TYPE_SIZE < 32
#error "Here's a nickel kid.  Go buy yourself a real computer."
#endif

LOL!

That isn't the same limitation I was thinking of, though.

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[-] swab148@lemm.ee 6 points 10 months ago
[-] grue@lemmy.world 6 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Linux doesn't run on anything below a 386 because it requires a MMU.

(Some people have made forks that can run on 286s etc., but those changes have never been part of the mainline kernel.)

[-] refurbishedrefurbisher@lemmy.sdf.org 3 points 10 months ago

You can if you emulate a CPU that does have an MMU. Someone has actually done this to get Linux booting on an Intel 4004. Another one got Linux to boot on a Commodore 64.

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[-] rob_t_firefly@lemmy.world 4 points 10 months ago

They tried running Linux on their ENIAC, but someone accidentally tipped over one of the crates of punch cards which has unfortunately set the project back a few months.

[-] TimeSquirrel@kbin.melroy.org 5 points 10 months ago

We are Tandy buddies!

Still looking for an original monitor.

[-] swab148@lemm.ee 3 points 10 months ago

I used to have one of those! Well before I ever knew about Linux, but it was great fun making little stuff in BASIC and playing with actually floppy disks.

[-] grue@lemmy.world 3 points 10 months ago

I'm sad that my parents eventually forced me to get rid of it. At least I kept the keyboard, though.

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[-] baatliwala@lemmy.world 22 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

I installed Tiny Core Linux on an old ass netbook laptop on which even Windows 7 kinda lagged. Went CLI only, no DE and made the laptop thousand times more usable. I've basically repurposed that laptop as an external hard drive for things I don't need backed up but good to have a backup of.

[-] Hupf@feddit.org 20 points 10 months ago

Needs some work on the cable management but no other notes, 5/7 build.

[-] jodanlime@midwest.social 17 points 10 months ago

I see a SATA cable, so I'm guessing it will work fine.

[-] SomeRandomNoob@discuss.tchncs.de 14 points 10 months ago

You do not need a case and discrete GPU. Way above minimum requirements! :)

[-] bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de 14 points 10 months ago

Overkill.

I used to run a router on a 386 from a floppy disk.

[-] Shardikprime@lemmy.world 10 points 10 months ago

Man I love Lubuntu, it's such a tiny distro that makes even old as fuck machines semi functional for modern usage.

Even those weird ass atom netbooks work like a charm with it and you can actually do decent work on them!

And the best part is that the UI keeps being understandable by average windows users

Great distro,.10/10, would install on a Compaq laptop again

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[-] pastel_de_airfryer@lemmy.eco.br 10 points 10 months ago

I must still have a Pentium S with Windows 98 back at my mom's house. Now I am wondering if it could run Linux.

[-] lonesomeCat@lemmy.ml 5 points 10 months ago

If you're not planning to run GUI

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[-] AdrianTheFrog@lemmy.world 7 points 10 months ago

Linux is between the requirements of a raspberry pi pico and a raspberry pi zero I would say

Although some crazy person did get Linux running on an esp32 once

[-] Agent641@lemmy.world 5 points 10 months ago

There is a number of crabs that can run linux

[-] Errorcode7@programming.dev 6 points 10 months ago

That graphics card is too nice

[-] AnarchistArtificer@slrpnk.net 5 points 10 months ago

I revived a friend's old laptop by installing Linux on it, and I told her that using Linux entitled her to a small amount of "nerd creds". Years later, she told me that it did end up eliciting mild approval from a woman who ended up being her partner for multiple years. The system works!

[-] possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 4 points 10 months ago
[-] azha@lemm.ee 3 points 10 months ago

Put it in rice first

[-] BaronRivendare@sopuli.xyz 3 points 10 months ago

My Amilo L1310G likes this

[-] pewpew@feddit.it 3 points 10 months ago

Looks like a Cybertruck

[-] ColdWater@lemmy.ca 3 points 10 months ago

But can you run Linux on hard drive controller chip?

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