Ask HN: Best computer that can't run a modern browser

This page summarizes the projects mentioned and recommended in the original post on news.ycombinator.com

Our great sponsors
  • InfluxDB - Power Real-Time Data Analytics at Scale
  • WorkOS - The modern identity platform for B2B SaaS
  • SaaSHub - Software Alternatives and Reviews
  • pico-os

    an operating system for the Raspberry Pi Pico

  • any "Raspberry Pi" with 256 MB - is a perfect test machine.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raspberry_Pi

    And there is an extra minimal alternative:

    Raspberry Pi Pico ( 264 KB; available from $4 + https://github.com/asynts/pico-os )

    "Raspberry Pi Pico comes with Dual-Core ARM Cortex M0+ processor, which can run up to 133MHz. It has 264KB of SRAM and 2MB of on-board flash storage, but we can extend up to 16MB of off-chip Flash memory via a dedicated Quad-SPI bus."

  • vtm

    Text-based desktop environment

  • Any computer at all, just about any linux distro, boot into console mode, and then run something like this

    https://github.com/netxs-group/vtm

  • InfluxDB

    Power Real-Time Data Analytics at Scale. Get real-time insights from all types of time series data with InfluxDB. Ingest, query, and analyze billions of data points in real-time with unbounded cardinality.

    InfluxDB logo
  • pico-rv32ima

    Running Linux on RP2040 with the help of RISC-V emulation

  • maybe with a little hacking ..

    "Raspberry Pi Pico RISC-V Emulator Runs Linux" ( 2 days ago )

    https://www.tomshardware.com/news/raspberry-pi-pico-risc-v-e...

    https://github.com/tvlad1234/pico-rv32ima

    "This project uses CNLohr's mini-rv32ima RISC-V emulator core to run Linux on a Raspberry Pi Pico. It uses two 8 megabyte SPI PSRAM chips as system memory. To alleviate the bottleneck introduced by the SPI interface of the PSRAM, a 4kb cache is used. The cache implementation comes from xhackerustc's uc32-rvima project."

NOTE: The number of mentions on this list indicates mentions on common posts plus user suggested alternatives. Hence, a higher number means a more popular project.

Suggest a related project

Related posts