New Linux and 24 Year Old Portable Hardware: No Problem
An Anonymous Coward writes:
Contemporary linux runs well on decades-old portable hardware : https://raymii.org/s/blog/My_24_year_old_HP_Jornada_can_do_things_your_modern_iPhone_still_cant_do.html
They bother to cite NCommander, even:
NCommander has an excellent video on the 680e and the use of the device at the Dutch Railways (NS).
[hubie] An interesting short article for those who haven't repurposed a mobile device with a new operating system. The author notes:
Boy do I miss the good old days, where devices were programmable by their owners instead of just e-waste consumption slabs.
How many devices do you have lying in a drawer somewhere that are just fine hardware wise, but lack the software updates or development capabilities to be useful today?
[hubie] How often do you extend the life or repurpose retired mobile devices and how have you done it? Through advice and encouragement I got from the SN community, a few years ago I resurrected an old Samsung tablet by installing LineageOS and I use it all the time to play games I get off of F-Droid.
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