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Hi, nioce video the smallest distro i use on older machines for a full / partial desktop experience is a old version of Linux Puppy ( 5 i think ) , the iso is about 75 meg you can run it of a cdrom, it can run in ram, or run in ram and use a small swap file on the hdd for permanent files eg run a spreadsheet in ram with the os but save a spreadsheet or word document to the hard drive - i think the swap file is linux format, but once there you can copy it to the fat16/32/ntfs windows partition to use on the old Microsoft OS Everything compressed on a floppy - great I have a modified by some chinese people boot disk with striped down win 311 all on a single floppy, similarly it copies the boot to ram, then expands everything in ram disk The good thing with Puppy running of the cdrom is it reminds me of say a commodore 64 or amiga, because you cannot corrupt the os and you can save your files - so pretty good, the auto probe hardware works fine, and you can install the pupets ?? ( linux puppy add on modules ) - i use the puppydosbox - works very good on pentium 4 and mainly sun some older dos games or my microsoft works for dos, even the turbo pascal compiles and stuff i wrote 1985-2000 works fine

HI, I guess like anything , give it a go and see if it works. I know a few older people who have older machines that are not "the best" for modern day. This is like Pentium 4 machines and machines made say 2000-2010 Some people lie my elderly neighbours have what was a new machine at the time and fully loaded genuine software, while it may be 20 years old it works fie, i gave them my old 2007 apple sno laptop with osx 10.6, office and the apple pack or whatever it was called with the apple version of office themed programs ( similar to linux say libre office ) But today banking is not secure, you tube wont really run on it and it is not secure. Some cannot afford or want a new pc, bu luckily linux Min and even puppy runs find on a core2duo for example and is modern(ish) My old intel macbook that i gave them, has Linux Mint V18 dual boot, so they can run all the office apps in apple, and reboot to Linux Mint for email / banking So ReactOS may be a option - - does it have a native dos mode ??? - if not will dosbox run ??? While stating the obvious, the oldest machine in my collection is Pentium 100 running win 311, and a Pentium 2 running win98, they all work fine as they did out of the box, they all talk to each other and win 10 ok, and can see the raspbery pi. the only issue is the windows 311 and 98 can see the win 10 shares but cannot see the files, ( they used to ) but from a win 7 or newer i cans see the early windows files shared folder and drop files to the older win 31 98 machines. ( The win 98 i do recall, stopped after a win 10 update on newer machines and needed that machine to run the login manager and password and i think change setting to SMB2 - it is inconvenient to get up walk out of the old pc room and go to a new machine to drop files from a newer windows version then go back ) Like you said - it appears still in Alpha I enjoyed your plug and pray - that was my motto back in the win95 days, plus after many issues i learned to take out all unnecessary hardware eg sound / lan / video/ scsi and get a base machine install running and stable first, then shut down, change 1 item only and reboot - it helps not to confuse the Os or give it to many choices at once - Nortons Ghost was my best friend Some early IDE cables do not have the missing (blanked of pin ) so you can put it in upside down, they also do not always have that little key way ( the small plastic stub in the middle ) so that the cable can only go in one side - again that was a later change. Generally you look for the number one on the pin out, some times it is not there, it may be a red mark or a little triangle or arrow - and not all machines had pin 1 at the back facing the left from rear view and not all had pin one next to the power connector - fun and games Oh nice video Regards George

I do enjoy watching ReactOS TH-cam videos whenever they appear in my feed, and it's cool that you ran it on bare metal. I still consider it to be rather useless. It's a reverse engineer of a very old version of Windows, which is by no means practical. It would be cool to run it in PCem since that will allow emulating old hardware, but I don't see how ReactOS can "do" anything practical. It would make more sense to have a reverse-engineered open source Windows 10, but we all know that would require tremendous amount of work, and probably won't happen...the world of operating systems and software compatibility today is already drastically different from 20+ years ago!

Master should be at the end of the cable. Even if you jumper the middle one to master and the end device to slave, that is non-standard. By the way, I liked the video, not here to bother you.

what if the hdd is clicking and not hdding

Just use full disk encryption lol. Ez

Really curious about any overheating issues with this PC over time. Some additional test you should add to your test of old PCs is video playback of common video standards (AVC 1080p, HEVC 10-bit 4K...). "TH-cam playback" is a codec lottery.

Is that second PCI-E slot 16x or 8x? Maybe you could try putting that passive GPU in the lower slot and it would get more airflow from the PSU fan. You could also run an nvme ssd card in the other PCI-E slot for fast storage.

just use `shred`

I like reactOs just like win2k/xp-classic. May be i try.

2:45 I'm glad you did a video cut and reversed the IDE cable to match Master and Slave. I was stressing at the screen when I saw you plug the end of the cable into the CD-Rom set as slave. Yes I'm old. This OS gives me Lindows flashbacks 😁

I was hyped for the concept, but what a disappointment in execution. I wish the dev team had the resources and manpower to fully take ReactOS to its full potential, the world needs a friendly alternative to Windows that isn't Linux or macOS.

I didn't expect to see someone install a spinning drive for an OS in 2024, even for an intentionally low end build.

The browser must be too small to have JS support so no modern site will load... for sure!

I must admit - I really like your music.

PRETTY SURE, HAMMER WORKS MUCH FASTER !

I would love to make this my Windows replacement OS. I'm still hanging on to my Windows 7 for dear life as I refuse to "upgrade" any newer integrated spyware featured Windows OS from our Microsoft overlords. I have actually committed to donating $5 a month to this project several months ago, in hopes that project will eventually be a serious contender. I seriously hope a lot more people will contribute towards this project. And no, I have no affiliation with them. I'm just a guy who doesn't want my OS spying on my activities, policing my files, and secretly reporting everything back to headquarters. I have lost all faith and trust with Microsoft after Windows 7, and even with Windows 7, I have a some concerns on what it might be collecting from me. Also, I hope this project NEVER integrates AI into it. If it was made as an optional add-on, then that would be okay because then we could still choose to not have it.

How worth it is it these days? I tried it like 10 years ago, but it crashed all the time.

Just use Darik's Boot and Nuke - DBAN

And here is yet another an awesome ex-it guy video!

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why do u destroy data there in first place

Looks like jumping in a time machine and going back to the early 2000s. It's a shame it's so flaky but it's a huge undertaking. I hope MS don't sue them.

Reality: nobody uses it because nothing of it works. It's not "compatible" at all.

Smash it. Better safe than sorry 👍

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Leuke video! Die laptop mag dan wel oud zijn, hij is nog prima voor kinderen! En met Linux zal het moeilijk zijn om het systeem overhoop te halen!

Ahhh i forgot in fedora that armagetron is packaged as "armacycles-ad", lol. Anyway, great video, nice to see my comment was helpful :)

Nice video! When you want to teach them about hardware and OS an optiplex is very durable option, I still have my optiplex from when I was a child. I dropped a coin on the motherboard one time, it sparked and shut off then it turned back on like nothing happened lol. it was already 8 years old when I got it, and its about 18 now and still solid. Truly the toyota corolla of computers! Also Kblocks is a pretty good tetris clone.

ReactOS gone too much far ahead on this new release, way better than it was before, they done really great jib improve user experience

very cool, just make sure to keep your kids away from Richard Stallman.

Our children are very happy with their own laptop to play around with. And this using only open source software, free as in speech but also free as in beer (or... lemonade, I guess). What do you think? Did I miss any great titles?

hello the drive must be readable to do this.. if drive is not readable??

Made. DVD Setup did not work blue of death computer froze ?

If you are that worried just keep it and reuse it. Of course I am talking about the average user.

i fukin loved intro music

looks like win 98

I think the disk cradle is missing, at the bottom of the front face, where you can see two tabs with two holes... Or these two tabs were used directly to screw the disk... I Own a packard Bell mini-tower from this era, in which the - now SSD - drive is screwed vertically in the front.

The firmware of the drive regularly swaps failing sectors with hidden spare sectors, hiding the failing sectors. These hidden sectors can't be overwritten, you really need the hammer for that.

hey smokers drauga1 here today we are going to install reactos.

10:35 Is that the sound of the IBM PC Speaker?

My recommendation: Do this on an *old* diskless PC booted from a live Linux thumb drive, and only attach the disks you _want_ to erase. This way, there's less/no risk of accidentally erasing the _wrong_ drive with all of your mission critical 💩 on it! 👍 For those nervous about using DD, the _shred_ utility can do the same thing with different synaptics. Like DD it can also be used to erase files as well as disks, and the same caution needs to be taken when running as root. 👍 SSDs: Unlike HDDs, SSDs can be securely cleared in a single write. Use a block size in DD that's identical to the physical sector side of the SSD (Usually 4K); Better brand SSDs will automatically convert sector writes of all 0x00 to _TrimAll_ commands, allowing the SSD to self-manage the block erasure process in the most efficient and wear-friendly fashion. 💯

Fast mention on this one, but You should definitely not be using a Packard Bell machine for ANY kind of OS testing ... They used their own proprietary hardware on the boards, and it cause tons of problems with drivers back in the older Windows days. They were great games machines with rel Windows, but only when You went to the actual PBell support site & downloaded the board drivers & overlays for installation right after the initial Windows install itself. Anything without the custom drivers at the board level would just not run the hardware correctly, & it didn't support the current DirectX or slot tech properly. G'Luck!!!

GREAT - THANKS !! What is the memory usage ?? I have here an old DELL Dimension 2400 with Pentium 1 Core CPU and 1 GB RAM. Want to give a working system to poor people so they have a computer. Can you help me out ?? You can answer me in Dutch ....

„Why would you smash your hdd instead of doing this??“ 🤡 - too much effort - less fun than smashing it - takes way longer - still less safe than killing it physically - if u wanna give ur hdd a second life just wipe it like usual, if not then ur gonna throw it in the trash anyway - so why not have fun doing that?