this post was submitted on 30 Jan 2024
843 points (98.2% liked)
Technology
59577 readers
2902 users here now
This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.
Our Rules
- Follow the lemmy.world rules.
- Only tech related content.
- Be excellent to each another!
- Mod approved content bots can post up to 10 articles per day.
- Threads asking for personal tech support may be deleted.
- Politics threads may be removed.
- No memes allowed as posts, OK to post as comments.
- Only approved bots from the list below, to ask if your bot can be added please contact us.
- Check for duplicates before posting, duplicates may be removed
Approved Bots
founded 1 year ago
MODERATORS
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
view the rest of the comments
Can I install Linux on the old systems so they work better?
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? ๐ค
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.
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 It breathed new life into seriously outdated hardware.
Those german railways shouldn't be running proprietary winblows garbageware to begin with. Shouldn't they be running Suse?