<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div>Slackware worked on a pentium iii machine last year for me. It even worked with a USB wireless N card running Realtek firmware. </div><div><br></div><div>Not all is lost! :) I too love getting that old hardware working again. Personal favorites being SPARC machines. </div><div><br></div><div>-c<br><br>Sent from mobile</div><div><br>On Jun 16, 2015, at 13:10, Mike Plemmons <<a href="mailto:mikeplemmons@gmail.com">mikeplemmons@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div><p dir="ltr">Depending on how much you want to play you could check out Slackware or, if you want to get even more manual, Arch or Gentoo. They all may be able to run rather well on holder hardware.</p>
<p dir="ltr">I may be mistaken but I believe the distros you list use newer versions of GNOME which just about require OpenGL. This means potentially newer video cards. You could also try the Xfce versions and see if they provide what you want.</p>
<div class="gmail_quote">On Jun 16, 2015 3:49 PM, "tom" <<a href="mailto:thomas.w.cranston@gmail.com">thomas.w.cranston@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">After fooling around with a Dell Dimension 4550, and a Dell Optiplex<br>
210L, I am wondering how soon I will not be able to run a current and up<br>
to date Linux Distro such as Ubuntu, Mint,or Fedora on it. I could<br>
probably run Puppy or DSL, but I find them to be an option of last<br>
resort. I am currently running a Dell Inspiron 1520 Pentium Dual Core in<br>
it. LinuxMint 17 Cinnamon LTS. Pretty much does anything I need to do<br>
such as browser with many tabs open and YouTube. Plays DVD's quite well.<br>
I may consider more RAM or a Dual Core Duo upgrade If that's compatible<br>
with my chipset and BIOS ver, but not if the laptop will be antiquated<br>
in the near future.<br>
<br>
Tom<br>
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