For the curious ones the machine is a 2001 IBM Thinkpad T22 with 20Gb of HDD, 256 Mb of RAM and an Intel Pentium 3 @ 900MHz.

  • seaQueue@lemmy.world
    2·
    1 year ago

    I’m sure the Gentoo crowd will refute this in a day or two when they’re finished compiling and can read it.

    Edit: bro, a 2001 era Thinkpad is going to take like a month to finish building everything. You can probably cross build that system faster on your phone.

  • Jeena@jemmy.jeena.net
    1·
    1 year ago

    Back in the day, around 2005 or 2006 I did that and I had browse the internet in a text based browser for 2 days because KDE on that old machine took two days to compile.

    • JetpackJackson@feddit.de
      1·
      1 year ago

      How did it go? I’m trying to make my website more accessible by running it through w3m, so I wonder how the sites back then did.

      • Jeena@jemmy.jeena.net
        1·
        1 year ago

        It depends on the site, back then there were a lot of table-layouts which were quite fucked up in the text-only browser. Nowadays there are non of them which is good, but nowadays there are JavaScript only websites which don’t really work well. You can install a text only browser and try it out yourself.