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Episode: 2380
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Title: HPR2380: Raspbian X86 on P4 Tower
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Source: https://hub.hackerpublicradio.org/ccdn.php?filename=/eps/hpr2380/hpr2380.mp3
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Transcribed: 2025-10-19 02:00:33
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This is an HBR episode 2,380 entitled Rusty and X86 on B4 Tower and in part on the series Hardware Upgrades.
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It is hosted by Tony Huma, Tony H1,212 and in about 4 minutes long and Karima Clean Flag.
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The summary is, this is a show on installing Bixel on a Pentium 4 Tower PC.
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Hello this is Tony Hughes again in Blackpool in the UK and I recorded a show
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few weeks ago about running Raspberry and Pixel on X86 on a Lenovo X61S.
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And as I said in that show, I was interested to see how it perform on what I know,
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plus it's quite old hardware in the form of the Pentium 4 Tower.
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So we have a spare tower at the makerspace which gets you used to test low
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resource-operated systems to see if they live up to their name, so on Saturday.
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Yesterday is the right day but a few weeks ago about the time this show goes out.
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I put the X86 Raspberry and Image on the tower to see how it perform.
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Specifications are Pentium 4, 2.8GB CPU, 2GB DDR RAM and a 40GB spinning hard drive,
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which in its day was a very useful bit of kit, but as technology has moved on and most people
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wouldn't consider it as a usable working PC today.
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First problem I encountered was the DVD drive with Duff and I didn't have the image on the
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flash drive, but luckily I did have my trusty little USB DVD in the back,
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so I hooked that and booted into the boot menu and set the disc off load in the LS.
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I'll not go into this again because I ran through the install process last time
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for anyone who's not heard it, that was HPR episode 2362, but the install went well and I was
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left with the new install the pixel on the tower. So I went through the new install process
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and I did last time and was left with an up-to-date and password secure PC,
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so my next thing was to reboot to see what the resource use would be at the first boot.
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And when I rebooted the system manager I was amazed to see that it was a constant 66
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megabit of RAM and about 1% CDU usage. When I turned on Chrome this pushes the RAM usage
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to over 100 megabytes, but it was smooth, easy to cope with navigate into resource hungry sites
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such as YouTube and the BBC, so I considered it past the first test.
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Our next open-the-word document in LibreOffice, initially this took about 10 seconds to load,
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but once opened it was perfectly usable. No obvious lag, so it should provide the
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gov office capable PC. So you can use the web, you can write documents, it has an email client
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or you can use web mail and it's not painfully slow. I think this PC would make a very usable
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home work first computer for a child with pixel installed or a computer for an older member of
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the family that just needed to keep in touch with family and friends without breaking the bank.
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In fact, you could probably pick up a working tower of off-the-likes of
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freegle or free cycle for nothing and you may even get a small 17 or 19 HTFT monitor from the same
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place. Yes, it's not as energy efficient as the latest bit of kit, but as it said the last time
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the cost of a new PC or laptop can buy a lot of additional electricity in the time that you may
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run it before it finally expires. Okay, so that's my review of Pixel X826 on a Pentium 4 tower,
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bye bye for now and I'll talk to you again soon. Bye.
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