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Allow for the possibility of non-GNU user-space. Maybe I'm making a mess of this question and should roll it back to the original, but it clearly seems to be asking about user-space as well as a kernel (e.g. mentioning Debian).
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A bit of a trivia question: What is the oldest hardware capable of running a modern Linux-based operating system  , including user-space? (Not necessarily GNU userspace, but running a standard GNU/Linux distro would be most interesting.)

By this I mean being capable of running a fairly recent Linux kernel, in some form. I've found out that the Amiga 1200, launched in 1992 can run Debian (video), but are there any older computers capable of this ?

A bit of a trivia question: What is the oldest hardware capable of running a modern Linux-based operating system  ?

By this I mean being capable of running a fairly recent Linux kernel, in some form. I've found out that the Amiga 1200, launched in 1992 can run Debian (video), but are there any older computers capable of this ?

A bit of a trivia question: What is the oldest hardware capable of running a modern Linux-based operating system, including user-space? (Not necessarily GNU userspace, but running a standard GNU/Linux distro would be most interesting.)

By this I mean being capable of running a fairly recent Linux kernel, in some form. I've found out that the Amiga 1200, launched in 1992 can run Debian (video), but are there any older computers capable of this ?

This is asking about user-space, too, i.e. a whole OS
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What is the oldest computer capable of running a modern version of LinuxGNU/Linux?

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What is the oldest computer capable of running a modern version of Linux?

A bit of a trivia question: What is the oldest hardware capable of running a modern Linux-based operating system ?

By this I mean being capable of running a fairly recent Linux kernel, in some form. I've found out that the Amiga 1200, launched in 1992 can run Debian (video), but are there any older computers capable of this ?