Pure curiosity! What’s the oldest box on which you’ve successfully installed Tumbleweed? Is it still running, up to date?
I may be a finalist: I got Tumbleweed running on a 2011 Samsung Series 7 Slate, although I admit that I haven’t updated it for awhile.
I had Tumbleweed running on a late 2007 MacBook3,1. I suspect it would still run Tumbleweed… It’s still working, battery no so much.
My old ASUS laptop from 2006 got TW in ~2012 (before TW was official) . It has been continuously upgraded and serves as a Jellyfin server at my son’s. The screen is dead, the battery is too, but once a month I get an email from it that it dupped.
I run openSUSE Tumbleweed on a QNAP TS459P (Intel Atom D510, 1 GB, 4x4 TB ) from 2010.
The system boots from an external USB2 device, is managed via ssh and cockpit and is updated on a weekly basis.
It offers a SAMBA file server, dokuwiki (apache web server) and a gerbera media server. However I have not yet worked out how to configure gerbera for transcoding.
I did run Leap 15.x on a Thinkpad R61 and migrated to Tumbleweed a few months ago because the CPU does not support x86-64-v2. The original disk has been replaced by a SSD and the battery has been replaced 2 times. It works without problems on Tumbleweed so far. Okay, it’s not lightning-fast, but still useful for me.
The oldest piece of hardware I have that is still occasionally active with openSUSE is a Dell Inspiron 500m with a 32bit Intel CPU running openSUSE 11.2 and Windows XP. The network interfaces are disabled. It is essentially used only to control equally old special hardware via the serial port.
2011-era ASUS Px90 desktop. It was running fine up until June 2026 Slowroll updates. Now I get "1024x768 (4:3)" is the only resolution supported by this display.
Using grub menu to select 7.0.10-2.0.16.sr20260504-default kernel seems to return to the proper, 2540x1440 (16:9), resolution.
Here is my fastfetch info. Technically the 470 nvidia driver is EOL, so I may be stuck with this kernel.
OS: openSUSE Tumbleweed-Slowroll x86_64
,aQQP^ ?4QQa Kernel: Linux 7.0.10-2.0.16.sr20260504-default
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,QQP' ,aaaaa. ^$Q6, Packages: 8 (flatpak-system), 10 (flatpak-user), 2685 (rpm)
,QQP ajQQQWWWWQQQw. 4QQ Shell: zsh 5.9
QQP aQQP? ?$QQ. 4Q6 Display (ASUS PB278): 2560x1440 in 27", 60 Hz [External]
jQQ jQQ' ?WQr 'QQb DE: KDE Plasma 6.6.5
QQf ]QQ' ]QQ QQ6 WM: KWin (X11)
QQf ]QQ ]QQ) QQQ WM Theme: Breeze
QQ6 'QQ6 ]QQ QQf Theme: Breeze (Light) [Qt], Adwaita [GTK2/3]
]QQ. ^4QQaa .QQP ,QQ' Icons: breeze [Qt], breeze [GTK2/3/4]
$QQ. ^?QQQQf _yQP ,QQP Font: Noto Sans (12pt) [Qt], Noto Sans (12pt) [GTK2/3/4]
^WQQ6. aQQ? _QQP Cursor: breeze (72px)
^4QQQ6a. ajQQP' aQQP Terminal: konsole 26.4.2
?QQQQQWQaaaaaaajQWQP? aQQP' Terminal Font: Noto Mono (12pt)
?QQQQP????????^' saWQP? CPU: Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-3820 (8) @ 5.70 GHz
^?QQQgaaa._ __aaaQQQP?' GPU: NVIDIA GeForce GT 640 Rev. 2 [Discrete]
'^?QWQQQQQQQQ@??^' Memory: 3.60 GiB / 31.28 GiB (12%)
So I don’t think I make ‘finalist’ after all! 
Thanks for the feedback, everyone.
I have an old PC which has a motherboard from 2009 & a Pentium II processor! I think I bought it in 2010.
It is still going strong, although Windows is long gone. It has distro hopped quite a few Linux Distros but has finally settled on Tumbleweed & migrated that to Slow roll for ease of maintenance.
By now it is a bit of a Frankenstein machine as it has had transplants of new RAM, and extra HDD, a new SSD that Slowroll is running from & an old recycled graphics card from another machine that died to give HDMI connection rather than being stuck with VGA .
Works quite happily as a streaming machine to watch things ad free via Firefox in my exercise room.
System Details Report
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Date generated: 2026-06-24 11:13:14
Hardware Information:
Hardware Model: ASUSTeK Computer INC. P5G41T-M LX2/GB
Memory: 8.0 GiB
Processor: Pentium® E5800 × 2
Graphics: AMD Radeon™ R7 200 Series
Disk Capacity: 1.3 TB
Software Information:
Firmware Version: 0405
OS Name: openSUSE Tumbleweed-Slowroll
OS Build: (null)
OS Type: 64-bit
GNOME Version: 50
Windowing System: Wayland
Kernel Version: Linux 7.0.12-1-default
2003 model Optiplex
# inxi -CGMSmxxz --hostname --vs -- za
inxi 3.3.40-00 (2025-11-25)
System:
Host: gx270.ij.net Kernel: 6.19.12-1-default arch: i686 bits: 32
compiler: gcc v: 15.2.1
Desktop: KDE v: 3.5.10 tk: Qt v: 3.3.8c wm: kwin dm: 1: KDM note: stopped
2: XDM Distro: openSUSE Tumbleweed 20260623
Machine:
Type: Desktop System: Dell product: OptiPlex GX270 v: N/A serial: <filter>
Chassis: type: 6 serial: <filter>
Mobo: Dell model: 0Y1057 serial: <filter> Firmware: BIOS vendor: Dell
v: A07 date: 06/26/2006
Memory:
System RAM: total: 2 GiB available: 1.95 GiB used: 410.8 MiB (20.5%)
igpu: 128 KiB
Array-1: capacity: 4 GiB slots: 4 modules: 4 EC: None
max-module-size: 1024 MiB note: est.
Device-1: DIMM_1 type: SDRAM size: 512 MiB speed: 400 MT/s volts: N/A
manufacturer: N/A part-no: N/A
Device-2: DIMM_2 type: SDRAM size: 512 MiB speed: 400 MT/s volts: N/A
manufacturer: N/A part-no: N/A
Device-3: DIMM_3 type: SDRAM size: 512 MiB speed: 400 MT/s volts: N/A
manufacturer: N/A part-no: N/A
Device-4: DIMM_4 type: SDRAM size: 512 MiB speed: 400 MT/s volts: N/A
manufacturer: N/A part-no: N/A
CPU:
Info: single core model: Intel Pentium 4 bits: 32 arch: Netburst Northwood
rev: 9 cache: L1: 8 KiB L2: 512 KiB note: check
Speed (MHz): 2793 min/max: N/A core: 1: 2793 bogomips: 5585
Flags-basic: ht pae sse sse2
Graphics:
Device-1: NVIDIA NV34 [GeForce FX 5200] driver: nouveau v: kernel
arch: Rankine ports: active: DVI-I-1,VGA-1 empty: TV-1 bus-ID: 01:00.0
chip-ID: 10de:0322
Display: x11 server: X.Org v: 21.1.21 compositor: kwin driver: X:
loaded: modesetting unloaded: fbdev,vesa failed: nv
alternate: nouveau,nvidia dri: swrast gpu: nouveau display-ID: :0
screens: 1
Screen-1: 0 s-res: 3360x1050 s-dpi: 108
Monitor-1: DVI-I-1 pos: primary,left model: NEC EA243WM res: N/A dpi: 94
diag: 612mm (24.1")
Monitor-2: VGA-1 pos: right model: Dell P2213 res: 1680x1050 hz: 60
dpi: 90 diag: 558mm (22")
API: EGL v: 1.5 platforms: gbm: egl: 1.4 drv: nouveau x11: drv: swrast
inactive: wayland
API: OpenGL v: 4.6 compat-v: 1.5 vendor: mesa v: 26.1.3 glx-v: 1.4
direct-render: yes renderer: llvmpipe (LLVM 22.1.7 128 bits)
device-ID: ffffffff:ffffffff
API: Vulkan v: 1.4.350 surfaces: N/A device: 0 type: cpu
driver: mesa llvmpipe device-ID: 10005:0000
Info: Tools: api: clinfo, eglinfo, glxinfo, vulkaninfo x11: xdriinfo,
xdpyinfo, xprop, xrandr
Wow Pentium!
I don’t understand the KDEv3 though…??
just updating a 2016 era Intel i5-6400 with a z170 motherboard
# zypper lr
...
# | Alias | Enabled | GPG Check | URI
--+-------+---------+-----------+----------------------------------------------------------
...
2 | KDE3 | Yes | (r ) Yes | http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/KDE:/KDE3/16.0/
...
I may be the only KDE3 user frequenting these forums. Most (all?) using it have been using it 20 or more years and rarely need any help with it. When they do they tend to use kde3@lists.opensuse.org.
I just successfully updated a 2008 lenovo thinkpad 500r laptop to tumbleweed from leap 15.6.
It would not update to leap 16.0 due to restrictions within opensuse-migration-tool so I updated to tumbleweed. I think leap 16.0 was restricted due to 32bit vs 64 bit restrictions. Update conducted using migration tool.
mate desktop and plasma desktop will run thus far.
tom kosvic
The lenovo thinkpad 500r mentioned above functions in dual boot mode. It now dual boots to tumbleweed or windows xp.