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Is a old raspberry pi viable for anything with Linux? (programming.dev)
submitted 10 months ago by to c/linux@lemmy.ml
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I don't expect much but I found an old pi I bought probably 2016(may of been 2017). It was supposed to be a pi-hole but was never able to get the dns forwarding to work on my modem. It still works but wanted to somehow convert it to a regular distro(it's based on a micro-SD and I don't have any more microsd readers). I wanted to set it up as a basic system I could ssh into a terminal. Not expecting anything fancy or even graphic based. A lot of stuff I want to learn/practice "work" on windows but are native to Linux, like vim/neovim nmap gcc etc. Is this feasible? Am I under estimating what's possible with it?

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[–] [S] 1 point 10 months ago (2 children)

Yeah I'm thinking my SD card is failing... I know it's slow but I tried to do a fresh install in recovery 7 hours ago and it's still initialing the "noob" installer.

Supposedly I was thinking to small, I was thinking like trying to use nmap to discover all ip addresses on my lan or load vim to practice vim motions (I get the idea but I'm still too slow put in alot of commands cause I'm like ok... Up 10 lines, ok, up is.. Look on cheat sheet... I... then number of lines... That was 10...look on cheat sheet... Oh just enter 10...it didn't work... Figure out because it's not ingrained in my head the time looking at a cheat sheet is making commands time out).

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