tamber@carbon$> uname -a
Linux carbon 2.6.32-5-686 #1 SMP Tue May 13 16:33:32 UTC 2014 i686 GNU/Linux
A friend asked around for anyone with a Pentium 3 machine, if they could run some benchmarks to help out someone's thesis. So I dug my old home server out of the cupboard it's been lurking in since ... a long time ago.
Anyway, there's a real vintage air to a Linux install from about a fucking decade ago; even if the install is hopelessly broken now, because enough shit's moved on and I don't feel like putting the effort into fixing it.
And, like, the curse of retro-tech PC shit: even if I did fix it, what do I have at the end of it? It's an x86 box with linux on it, that's not special. It's a fucken Pentium 3 Celeron Compaq with less than half a gig of ram, in a beige-box desktop case.