That would be the one I most recommend, because it’s lightweight and won’t use a lot of the limited resources of the original pi, but it does run from RAM (by default it’s a diskless install), but should only like <60MB of RAM usage (but if you have the original B and not B+, that’s a whopping 23% of your RAM if I can math right - 23.4375% to be exact).
Of course, compiling on the original pi wouldn’t be fun, but you can cross-compile on your PC in a chroot or something and copy the package to the pi (unless the software you want can’t be cross-compiled). Still a good choice.
Void still surprises me how much stuff it has in its repos for 32bit arm. I have the pi 2 and while I don’t demand a lot of it, I always find what I need for it. I believe the pi 1 and 2 share the same 32 bit repos. Although I’ve powered it off for a while now, since I didn’t have any use for it right now (thinking of potentially using it as a secondary DNS or something easy on it).
All of these still have armv6 repos (or for gentoo, ports).
What’s wrong with raspbian, if you don’t mind me asking? Also, I kinda wonder how nix-env would run on raspbian, since it technically doesn’t need the cache (but just like gentoo, it’d be a slow experience and I don’t think cross-compiling is a thing on nix, idk).
I have repurposed my 2011 macbook as a docker hub. My 2015 macbook as my primary laptop and ssh terminal. Everything else is being used bu family memebers and or is part of my ever growing nas collection. I am what you call a data hoarder 200+ tb of hdds divided between 3 nases.
Look up your local electronics waste recycling center. You like have many in your area you did not even know about (usually part of a municipal waste center).
I dropped off several bags of old tech gear just like this a few weeks back. Sad to see it go, but none of it was worth the trouble to sell on eBay or worth the space in the closet it was taking up.
Every year or so, I do a full dig through all my boxes of spare tech gear, and things that I have not used in approx 3 years+ start getting set aside for recycling, unless I am saving them for some reason
The vast majority ended up being given to an artist that laser cuts art out of old circuit boards. They seemed happy that I had stuff in colors other than typical green. https://becausesciencedc.com/
I don’t know if they want everyone’s e-waste, but if you want some cool art out of laser cut circuit boards check it out. They just happened to show up at a local Pittsburgh art fare and I got a little mars rover art piece while I was getting rid of stuff. One of those stars aligned moments.
I give all of my really old hardware to the local computer store in the city.
They either put it into their museum if it is cool, or they give it to people with old computers that need repair.
That is better than eWaste going into the landfill.
I keep a certain amount of fairly old-ish new-ish hardware that still works well for test rigs for my software.
For example, my oldest system that I have right now is an i7-6800K, ASUS TUF, 32GB, GTX-1060. Still very usable.
I have given away some of my older hardware in the past but nowadays I feel compelled to keep it. I like building pc’s out of “scrap” even if I only use them for a while, out of curiosity or nostalgia, or some other nonsensical reason.
About to tear down an old P4 build and replace it with amd phenom, and revitalize an old IBM (yes, IBM) thinkpad with some old linux distro, probably debian 4, which still has all the repos available to download on dvd. Old hardware is fun.
When I upgraded this time my Ryzen 2400G and b350 mobo went in my partner’s computer and their i5 2500K became my server. My partner is only in country for another few months, so usually my old stuff became the server and the old server stuff was given away, repurposed or retired depending on it usefulness.
If it’s old but still good like 9th-11th generation intel stuff I gift it to my brothers. Older than that I normally just store it in hopes it might serve for something someday? IDK.