• @Harbinger01173430
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    -51 year ago

    Can I install Linux on the old systems so they work better?

    • @kuneho
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      1 year ago

      why would you think it would run better if you don’t even know if is it possible to install it in the first place? 🤔

    • @[email protected]
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      1 year ago

      i like linux but this sounds as nightmarish as rewriting everything, because thats probably what you’d need to do to make it work.

      and by that point you can upgrade the hardware.

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      1 year ago

      This, I had multiple old machines with these kinds of specs, I put Slackware on them, dropped in an ethernet card (or two), and used them for all sorts of things, iptables firewall/router, email server, network storage, irc server, etc. It breathed new life into seriously outdated hardware.

      • @Harbinger01173430
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        01 year ago

        Those german railways shouldn’t be running proprietary winblows garbageware to begin with. Shouldn’t they be running Suse?