#NetbookRevival

nickbeardednickbearded
2025-06-09

🚀 Just turned a 2009 netbook into my first personal VPS 🤟
Running Ubuntu Server with a custom-injected minimalist environment: BashCore.
SSH-ready, VPN-blinded, low-resource, 100% under my control.
No cloud. No noise. Just clean command line power.

🖥️ Specs:
• Atom CPU, 2GB RAM 🥹
• 160GB HDD
• Ubuntu Server + NordVPN
• Injected BashCore tools
• Accessed from Windows via terminal

nickbeardednickbearded
2025-04-08

[Day 1 complete – BashCore Uptime Test]
One full day running non-stop from a USB 2.0 stick on an Acer Aspire One D160 (2009, 2 GB RAM, no battery).

RAM: 800 MB / 1.91 GB
Load avg: 0.60 0.70 0.43
Stress-ng still running at ~18% CPU
Zero crashes, zero hangs. Still responsive.

Uptime test continues... 6 days to go!

nickbeardednickbearded
2025-04-07

[Update – 8 hours later]
BashCore still holding strong.

RAM steady at 700 MB

Load average: 0.25 0.18 0.20

No GUI, no disk writes, 6 active terminals

Running from a USB 2.0 stick (8 GB!)

Host: Acer Aspire One D160 (2009, 2 cores, 2 GB RAM, no battery, Wi-Fi only) 😅

Uptime test continues. 6.5 days to go.

Client Info

Server: https://mastodon.social
Version: 2025.07
Repository: https://github.com/cyevgeniy/lmst