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Old 01-06-2007, 03:21 PM   #1
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LXer: Atticware Updates: More Memory, Updated Instructions


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Last May I wrote about reviving a pair of ancient laptops using Damn Small Linux. I called them “atticware” (a term I can’t take credit for inventing, BTW) because the attic is where computers that old often end up. My point is that there are current Linux distributions that can allow even decade old hardware to run a current if lightweight OS and software. The uses for this should be obvious: non-profits, the proverbial starving students, anyone of limited means, developing countries, and so on. Various programs to recycle old system and get them into deserving hands have sprung up like weeds though I suspect few if any bother to load Linux on such systems. [Hmmm... I'm running Debian Etch on a few 450MHz boxes. One of those is using KDE, and is quite snappy. She's apparently referring to the Pentium 133s. Wow! - dcparris]

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