[jggonz]

This reminds me of some of my early linux boxes. As a poor high school student in the mid to late 90s I was only able to get free computer equipment. Some of it was pretty cool. In order to squeeze as much performance out of them, I ran slackware and debian.

Some of the most memorable were:

386DX AT&T Server tower (a huge case with a 40lb 1.2GB Hard drive) - got it to run slackware and serve files on a 10mbps network

486SX-40MHz desktop machine running linux with FVWM and Englightenment! :) Biggest achievement: Play a 128mbps Mp3 file streamed from an Apple LC475!

Apple LC475 (68040-25MHz) - The 68040 could decode an mp3 file. I used to use it to decode the MP3 files and send the audio over the network to a 486sx that lacked an FPU. I ran linux on this, not mac os.

Apple Quadra 660AV - awesome little machine. I ran linux and mac os on this.

Those were fun times!

[Joeri]

My favorite linux machine was a 486 laptop with a 450mb hd and 20 mb ram which originally came with windows 95 running at 640x480, which I got handed down from my dad around 2000.

I bootstrapped a barebones debian system, custom-compiled basically everything on my (debian) desktop and copied it over, stripping out as much as I could, and ended up getting a pretty decent X environment going on it, with opera as browser and fvwm as window manager. I programmed my first web app on that machine, in C++. It didn't even run all that slowly, one wonders what went wrong that modern software is so horribly slow. Good times though, fun machine.

[kozukumi]

I am hoping you mean 128kbps MP3 :)