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Old 05-05-2015, 03:50 PM   #1
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LXer: 84-Year-Old Volunteer Rebuilds, Sends Linux Laptops to Africa


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Retired pastor James Anderson, age 84, has never worked in IT or had any formal computer training, but over the past two years he has rebuilt more than a hundred IBM ThinkPad laptops and sent them to schools and nonprofits in Africa – all running Linux.

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