My wife @eugenialoli has been working on installing Linux on various old computers for which a lot of other options are now unsupported.
She's been finding that machines with 2GB or RAM or 16GB of storage tend to struggle, whether while installing the OS, booting, installing common apps or running those apps.
2GB of RAM is an incredibly large amount. As is 16GB of storage.
WTF are we software people doing as an industry that makes us consume so many resources?
@jbqueru
Web browsers that are full development suites?
I started to learn some #FullStack development and I did not know about all the layout inspectors and debuggers that the web browser comes with!
A chaque fois, ça plantouille à l'étape "installation du système"... alors que le partitionnement s'est bien déroulé juste avant. Pour le moment, je ne sais pas comment passer cet obstacle ! Des idées ? #GeekHelp
I'm just now backing up #HomeAssistant and running the updates in preparation for moving its host #RPi 4B power source.
It feels like one of those sliding puzzle things where I'm doing this so I can then move an old laptop now running w/ #PuppyLinux, so I can then re-install my older RPi 1B which now boots from an old #NAS harddrive, so I can re-install #Mosquitto, so I can get my #MQTT msgs propagating again, so I can see #Mastodon toots of door open/close events.
I've got a resistant #Linux install I've been banging my head against for a few days. It seems to be the black sheep of the old MacBook family, this early-2008 model. Doesn't work like any others.
I can manage a live boot/install from an old xUbuntu 8.10 CD, which will upgrade to 9.04 but then nevermore. I've scoured the net for a bootable USB method but nothing works. A long way from 22.
A few more ideas to try – a good puzzle to keep me in the basement while COVID rages up two floors.
Solved the challenges of a Linux for my old (2008) mac by thinking smaller. My lack of DVD-R disks was solved by abandoning the Ubuntu distro I was trying for, and exploring distros that would fit onto a CD.
I had a very old box of those around and managed, after several tries, to burn one – #PuppyLinux – that would boot and install. Yay.