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Just wanted to show off the lowest end hardware I [OOP] ever ran Linux on (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 year ago by cm0002@lemmy.world to c/linux@programming.dev

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Single core, 32 bit CPU, can't even do video playback on VLC. But it kinda works for some offline work, like text editing, and even emulation through zsnes! It's crazy how Linux keeps old hardware like this running.

Thankfully though, this laptop CPU is upgradable, and so is the ram, so I'm planning on revitalizing and bringing this old Itautec to the 21st century 😄

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[–] nyan@lemmy.cafe 4 points 1 year ago

Very weird it can’t play videos at all.

I'm sure it can. My guess: either VLC is broken and a different or lighter player would work, or OP is picking the wrong videos (for a really slow CPU, you want older/less compressed codecs—I bet it would do MPEG1 just fine, and might even have acceleration for it).

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