Worth trying using a 15 years old notebook for self hosting?

I found an old notebook PC lying around and I'm wondering if it could be enough to run a few services like the arr suite, qbittorrent and pi-hole.

Here's a few specs:
Cpu : Intel Celeron 1011 1.6ghz
Ram : 1Gig
Ethernet port

If you think it's not a total waste of time, what distro would you install?

StrawberryPigtails , 6 months ago

It’s doable but you should treat it more as a learning opportunity than a production system.
Honestly, that’s old enough that a RPi might be able to run circle around it.

The Celeron 1011 is a 32bit processor, so Debian or Gentoo may be the only distributions that still support it and you will probably have to compile from source anything you want to run. A gig of ram was good for its time.

The Linux Unplugged crew from Jupiter Broadcasting are currently doing a 32bit challenge to see if such systems are still usable for day to day usage. It’s going to be interesting.

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