New OS for 2011 kiosk PC?
by Joel123 from LinuxQuestions.org on (#6N8HZ)
Hi everyone,
I have an industrial touchscreen PC (wall-hanging kiosk or infopoint thingie), dating back to about 2011. Its *sole* purpose is to act as a media station in a small museum and display web pages read from a local drive. It is reliable, unbreakable and replacing it (and its various siblings) is not really in the budget right now.
The problem is that it's running Ubuntu 11 (sluggish) and a Firefox version of similar age (also somewhat sluggish), and an antique browser cannot display web pages designed with 2024 HTML/CSS/etc.
Hardware specs I could find are:
2 GB RAM
Intel Core N270 1.60 Ghz x2
Graphics unknown
32 bit OS
57 GB drive
I've briefly worked with Ubuntu 18 and would like to install something that I know and that is easy to work with, but I don't think any modern OS will happily accept this machine, if at all. And remember, it is already quite sluggish.
So, what do I do? Any suggestions are welcome...
I have an industrial touchscreen PC (wall-hanging kiosk or infopoint thingie), dating back to about 2011. Its *sole* purpose is to act as a media station in a small museum and display web pages read from a local drive. It is reliable, unbreakable and replacing it (and its various siblings) is not really in the budget right now.
The problem is that it's running Ubuntu 11 (sluggish) and a Firefox version of similar age (also somewhat sluggish), and an antique browser cannot display web pages designed with 2024 HTML/CSS/etc.
Hardware specs I could find are:
2 GB RAM
Intel Core N270 1.60 Ghz x2
Graphics unknown
32 bit OS
57 GB drive
I've briefly worked with Ubuntu 18 and would like to install something that I know and that is easy to work with, but I don't think any modern OS will happily accept this machine, if at all. And remember, it is already quite sluggish.
So, what do I do? Any suggestions are welcome...