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[โ€“] MooseyMoose@lemmy.world 20 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I did that for my grandmother with FreeBSD many moons ago, on a Pentium3 no less. It ran for years and years like a champ. Booted straight into PySol since that was pretty much all she ever did on a computer.