Posted by dellus on Dec 18, 2020; 12:06am
URL: https://forum.librecad.org/Librecad-on-vintage-WinXP-PC-tp5719865p5719887.html

I have tried another experiment. On that old 500Mhz 256 MB RAM laptop I ran a PuppyLinux upupbb32-light live CD and tried to install LC 2.1.3. It complained there was not enough storage space to install. I had to set up a 512 MB Pupsave file, which is a slow harddrive RAM substitute.
I was rather convinced it would not work, as it probably was an obsolete hardware issue, but installation went through and - dadaa - LibreCAD 2.1.3 came up and worked!
So if you still want to use your old PC for a more modern LibreCAD and are willing to play with Linux you could give this a try. You can run PuppyLinux in parallel to Windows XP without wiping that. If you are interested I can give you more information.