I recently dragged out an Acer Aspire 3500 from a storage unit I was renting... it is from I guess mid or early 2000s? Boots with Manjaro from 2013 with 3.10 Linux kernel, and works surprisingly snappy.
I made a post
in the blog section (which was here, but I thought that would be better afterwards)
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