50MB operating system can resurrect your old PC

50MB operating system can resurrect your old PC(makeuseof.com)

26 points by makerdiety 2 hours ago | 6 comments

Beijinger 1 hour ago |

Bodhi Linux may be a better idea: https://www.bodhilinux.com/

Not sure if it will get more updates in the future.

I may consider this for the future: https://github.com/JeffHoogland/moksha

UncleSlacky 35 minutes ago | |

Or go straight to the distro DSL was forked from - antiX, which has a Debian Trixie-based 32-bit ISO (as well as the expected 64-bit version):

https://antixlinux.com/download/

dmuth 57 minutes ago | |

I literally saw this in the first paragraph of the website and it feels like it was written with AI:

> It’s more than just software—it’s a statement.

I know us engineers aren't the best writers, but when I see things like this, it feels like they're not even trying to write their own content.

Beijinger 32 minutes ago | | |

I don't know who wrote this, but it is unlikely AI wrote it.

The main guy is an older engineer with a lot of health struggles. And yes, he is American. Born American as far as I can tell. He once was so bad, he asked for private donations. Unfortunately, I was not aware of it at that time; otherwise I would have posted it to HN.

crusty 2 hours ago |

Core i, 4GB RAM is old? Naw dawg.

derwiki 46 minutes ago | |

In my day, we used a boot disk to restart without Windows 95 so we could run Doom with 8mb RAM