Are there any distros that could run on a pentium 2?

Nicht BurningTurtle@feddit.org to Linux@lemmy.ml – 71 points –

Edit: I am trying to put linux on a compaq armada 1700.

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@nichtburningturtle I run Arch Linux on a Pentium 2 E5300 and with some system tweaks like using Dwm/St, less than 1000 packages and args on some software it run smoothly.

not this P2, I think OP is talking about the P2 from 1997, I had a P2 266MHz and was running it at 300 (75x4), 32MB of RAM, 4GB HD, it was the shit in 97

Did you use an archlinux32 i486 iso?

@nichtburningturtle nah, amd64 official arch linux

Didn't know there were 64bit pentium 2 cpus.

I can't find anything to anything to support their assertion that a E5300 is a "Pentium 2", but the chip is from 2008, so it's not relevant to your situation. Maybe they meant it was a Pentium from the Core2Duo time, but that's still not a "Pentium 2".