<story><title>The world&apos;s slowest Linux PC</title><url>http://www.extremetech.com/extreme/124287-the-worlds-slowest-linux-pc</url><text></text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>stragulus</author><text>This reminds me of the dial-in server I built in our student home back in &amp;#x27;97-&amp;#x27;98. It was a 386sx 16Mhz with 2MB of memory and a 40MB hard drive that you had to preheat in the oven or it wouldn&amp;#x27;t spin up. That was realistically the lowest spec&amp;#x27;d hardware you could actually get to run linux on.&lt;p&gt;It took half an hour to boot, but that was okay since it was always on anyway. It took about 5 minutes to set up a ppp connection using a dial-in modem, and then the whole house had internet access through its network adapter. Unless someone had tripped over the coax cables again of course..</text></comment>
<story><title>The world&apos;s slowest Linux PC</title><url>http://www.extremetech.com/extreme/124287-the-worlds-slowest-linux-pc</url><text></text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>voltagex_</author><text>Previously: &lt;a href=&quot;https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8791812&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&amp;#x2F;item?id=8791812&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5581851&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&amp;#x2F;item?id=5581851&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>