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So long as the computer supports an instruction set from like the last 30 years you can run the latest kernel.
Here's a 133 Mhz Pentium running Gentoo with a very recent kernel.
I'd probably recommend something like Debian though unless you are really pushing the limits of the hardware.
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Here's a 133 Mhz Pentium running Gentoo with Linux 6.
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(Does anything on Lemmy track that?)
"Linux Kernel 4.14.8 (Dec 2017)" - Would this be the "very recent"?
That video came out in January 2018, so at the time it was "very recent." I don't think anything would have changed significantly since then.
4.14 is close to EOL, but it is still very well supported.
As far as I know. nothing done in that video would be impossible on the latest kernel. Everything would compile and run comparably.