04-02-2017, 07:11 AM
(03-31-2017, 05:39 PM)Mattias Westlund Wrote: The problem here is of course that this is an ISA card, which means you'll need a computer old enough to have ISA slots. I doubt you could get Ubuntu or some other modern distro running well on such an old machine.
The Linux kernel started development in 1991, of course it supports ISA motherboards, ATA harddrives and Pentium processors. It's usually the most recent hardware that takes a while to get a working Linux driver. Old working drivers don't get ripped out as new stuff appears :-p In this way, the Linux kernel is a bit of a vintage hardware driver library and because of that, pretty well suited to tinkerer projects like this.
But I'll stop talking about Linux now, I don't want to be stereotyped as a Linux fanboy... I was honestly trying to help since Windows 9x, as per your own description, is probably shittier to deal with than Linux. But for a nostalgia project maybe Windows 9x is The Real Thing, at least when you grew up with it.