Edit: I did manage to install Puppy Linux onto it, but I was severely limited by the CPU which is 32bits. I'm trying another old laptop next! Thanks everyone!
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What kind of limitation did you run into? Lack of packages or speed?
Old distro and lack of packages
Acronyms, initialisms, abbreviations, contractions, and other phrases which expand to something larger, that I've seen in this thread:
| Fewer Letters | More Letters |
|---|---|
| RPi | Raspberry Pi brand of SBC |
| SBC | Single-Board Computer |
| SSD | Solid State Drive mass storage |
| VNC | Virtual Network Computing for remote desktop access |
3 acronyms in this thread; the most compressed thread commented on today has 10 acronyms.
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Total waste of time. Get the newest Pi or equivalent