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by klooney 698 days ago
> Runs on any Linux, mostly, if you have a new enough kernel"

New enough kernel means CentOS 5 is right out. But it's been a decade, it'll run on anything vaguely sensible to be running today

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Maybe I'm just grumpy that once you line up the support windows, it's impossible to get new software on old hardware, even though the "oomph" is there

Maybe my next big hobby project should be emulating bleeding-edge Linux on some old 686 hardware. Like that guy who booted Ubuntu on an 8-bit AVR in a matter of mere days