Hi!
Someone asked me to revive their 20 year old laptop as its no longer working on their installation of windows XP.
This baby has around 512MB of Ram, 1.6 GHZ Intel Atom.
This is my first time doing something with hardware older than myself so I’d love some insight from people around.
Lots of good options already given, to throw a couple more one the pile Slackware if you want to play around with Linux more for a hobbyist than a user, Tails for a small Debian based security focused distro, or FreeBSD for something completely different but familiar, I’ve installed that on some pretty tiny hardware and it ran fine including an x86/atom CPU.
I don’t know for the other but tails doesn’t exist as a 32bit version, does it? I’m also not sure it would very comfortable on 512mb ram.