So a week ago I decided to wipe the drive and install a fresh Linux on it. At the time, I installed Ubuntu Studio (based on Ubuntu 8.04.04 Hardy Heron) to dual-boot with the pre-existing Windows XP install (always complaining about the validity of its license). It’s a machine probably built in the early 2000s and consistently upgraded with then-high-end CPU/memory/hard drives over the Aughties: the video card is ancient and the hard drives cramped, but it’s otherwise surprisingly up to date. The current project is a homemade desktop we bought used maybe five years ago. It was an OK machine, except for the lack of an ethernet card, and ISA cards were available even then mostly only used or as NOS. My first Linux install was Slackware onto a 486 desktop more than 10 years ago. This usually entails a look into the contemporary state of Linux, even if my immediate project is then hampered by the state of the outmoded hardware (lol). I love my Macbook, but every now and then I get the urge to dig out an old computer and install Linux on it.
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