My favorite linux machine was a 486 laptop with a 450mb hd and 20 mb ram which originally came with windows 95 running at 640x480, which I got handed down from my dad around 2000.<p>I bootstrapped a barebones debian system, custom-compiled basically everything on my (debian) desktop and copied it over, stripping out as much as I could, and ended up getting a pretty decent X environment going on it, with opera as browser and fvwm as window manager. I programmed my first web app on that machine, in C++. It didn&#x27;t even run all that slowly, one wonders what went wrong that modern software is so horribly slow. Good times though, fun machine.