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It's wonderful how the RaspberryPi foundation achieved everything the OLPC initiative--backed by huge names--tried and failed to do.
Puppy Linux has already been breathing new new life into old PCs. I have an IBM ThinkPad just like the one featured in the article running Puppy Linux.
Headlines like these are always mind bogglin. I always wished the Puppy project would allow better browsing on the raspberry pi. I really dislike the new Raspberry pi toolbar / desktop
Lubuntu is worth mentioning as something that has been breathing life into old PCs while being noobie-friendly and with the access to current ubuntu software repos.
Lubuntu is worth mentioning as something that has been breathing life into old PCs while being noobie-friendly and with the access to current ubuntu software repos.
Previous post listing reasons why I like it: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12979949
I think their biggest competitor is lubuntu. It's just a stripped down Ubuntu with the LXDE desktop. PIXEL also uses LXDE, and it looks like they've made a few design tweaks to the file manager. They both have Chromium as the default browser. Right now I think lubuntu supports way more machines.
I'm wondering why they didn't just use lubuntu, or just fork it and make a few changes. I've been using lubuntu on a small media PC, and I've been very happy with it.
With 512 MB, there's hardly an Internet browsing experience here. The biggest reason why old hardware have gone out of use (relatively quickly) is mostly due to Internet browsers and their need for more memory. So even if you have a computer with 2-4 GB laying around, and you attempt to revive it seeing the news here, it will be soon before you give up the idea altogether.
Lubuntu is worth mentioning as something that has been breathing life into old PCs while being noobie-friendly and with the access to current ubuntu software repos.
Drivers can be a problem. However, [UXL]buntu finally fixed the years-old bug where the cursor goes away on devices using built-in Intel graphics. (You could make the cursor come back with CTL-ALT-F1, CTL-ALT-F7, which switches the display to text mode and back.) That prevented anyone not heavily into Linux from using the thing.
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Everything OLPC set out to do? OLPC was meant to come with a display and a keyboard baked in, all in a (fully open) package that you could chuck across the room; a "View Source" button to let you inspect and edit the code to all your apps; UI making it easy to set up ad hoc networks to share/collaborate with anyone around you; and to put this all into the hands of children across the world, not just first world schoo…
The Pi was something people could actually buy cheaply.