Not suited even for modern versions of Ubuntu. It did outperform the Athlon at the time, but only by ramping up the clock speed to housefire levels.
Good for retro games. I'll give it credit for that. [Aug '19Slackware]
A Very good processor of its time - it can even keep up with Lower End Skylake CPUs, especially when overclocked - which it is great at handling. [May '18R0CK3R]
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