Yesterday, 08:20 PM
We can't guess what you want or what you're trying to do. There are things that might be done (or not) -- what exactly are you trying to do and what problems are you finding? I haven't run a P2 for probably 10 years (and that was full-up with 400MB of RAM and still did fine with a big swap), so I don't know how far the whole software ecosystem has moved.
Talk more. We can't read your mind. My guess is that all a microkernel version would do is be less compatible with hardware you have, but I may be wrong. If you want to do the work, the Hurd links and breadcrumb trails are in the Hurd announcement.
What else have you tried? Slitaz? Puppy? DIY/homebrew? Talk about the whole trip and help us figure out where you are and what you are trying to get done. Maybe one "answer" is for us to pick a machine, focus on that, and see what might be done. Do you have wired networks at all, is it all serial or headless or what? Maybe you can tether USB v2 from a phone? Are you CD-only or can you do a netinstall.
Do you have any newer machines? You may do best running a remote session from a faster machine or using screen etc. How many of what are you trying to do what with? Are these all for other people to recycle, etc? Is everything filled to maximum capacity with RAM--that's far and away the biggest benefit you can get from anything--do that first no matter what. Is it hardware compatibility that's the issue (X drivers or VIA cpu's or what). Does any sort of linux still run on them--if so, can you please post the results of inxi -zv7
There is no solution for how fat full-featured browsers are in 2025--at least none that are safe to take out on a network...which leaves the old versions and air-gapping the boxes OR learning to live with text or otherwise limited browsing (netsurf is pretty good, though)
Help us to help you. (I'm not making a Hurd-anything, though
) If you have some use case for which there ends-up being more widespread interest, that feedback alone would be useful.
Talk more. We can't read your mind. My guess is that all a microkernel version would do is be less compatible with hardware you have, but I may be wrong. If you want to do the work, the Hurd links and breadcrumb trails are in the Hurd announcement.
What else have you tried? Slitaz? Puppy? DIY/homebrew? Talk about the whole trip and help us figure out where you are and what you are trying to get done. Maybe one "answer" is for us to pick a machine, focus on that, and see what might be done. Do you have wired networks at all, is it all serial or headless or what? Maybe you can tether USB v2 from a phone? Are you CD-only or can you do a netinstall.
Do you have any newer machines? You may do best running a remote session from a faster machine or using screen etc. How many of what are you trying to do what with? Are these all for other people to recycle, etc? Is everything filled to maximum capacity with RAM--that's far and away the biggest benefit you can get from anything--do that first no matter what. Is it hardware compatibility that's the issue (X drivers or VIA cpu's or what). Does any sort of linux still run on them--if so, can you please post the results of inxi -zv7
There is no solution for how fat full-featured browsers are in 2025--at least none that are safe to take out on a network...which leaves the old versions and air-gapping the boxes OR learning to live with text or otherwise limited browsing (netsurf is pretty good, though)
Help us to help you. (I'm not making a Hurd-anything, though
) If you have some use case for which there ends-up being more widespread interest, that feedback alone would be useful.