I recently started using OpenBSD on my circa 2001 Pentium 3 rig for fun. It has 384MB of RAM and no SSE2.
I use i3wm for the desktop (1024×768×80Hz on a CRT), urxvt for terminal, netsurf for browsing (no JS), leafpad for GUI editing, and VLC for streaming music.
For coding the CPU supports the latest versions of Go and Python3, but Node/TypeScript no longer works since it now requires SSE2.
It's surprisingly snappy and fun to use, I can even post to hn from here. :)
I use i3wm for the desktop (1024×768×80Hz on a CRT), urxvt for terminal, netsurf for browsing (no JS), leafpad for GUI editing, and VLC for streaming music.
For coding the CPU supports the latest versions of Go and Python3, but Node/TypeScript no longer works since it now requires SSE2.
It's surprisingly snappy and fun to use, I can even post to hn from here. :)
Screenshots:
https://i.imgur.com/shozUbO.png
https://i.imgur.com/F22p3Z8.png