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Modern Linux Runs On Ancient Toshiba

Especially if you’re running it ... This is a Toshiba T4900CT which [MingcongBai] has been able to spruce up by installing a simplified version of the AOSC OS Linux distribution. read more

Windows 10 vs. MacOS vs. Chrome OS

Modern operating ... any Mac computer to run Windows instead of — or as a switchable option to — its built-in operating system, allowing access to most Windows applications and capabilities. This ... read more

Go Retro To Build A Spectre And Meltdown-Proof X86 Desktop

[Yeo Kheng Meng] had a question: what is the oldest x86 processor that is still supported by a modern Linux ... ancient IBM PS/1 desktop of 1993 vintage. The hardware consists of an AMD 486 clone ... read more

Hitting the Books: The Y2K bug could come back sooner than you think

Computer timekeeping has all the ancient problems of keeping a calendar in sync with the planet plus the modern limitations of binary encoding ... but the Unix time beneath them is still there. If you ... read more

New £65 million package for 5G trials

Rural areas will benefit from a series of government-funded trials to help them seize the potential of modern technology, the Digital Secretary Oliver Dowden announced ... retelling the story of Robin ... read more

Very little helps: Tesco flashes ancient Windows desktop on Scan-As-You-Shop device

How do you like them Apples? Cook drops 'record' 30 times* on conf call as iPhone sales up, services up, wearables up We interrupt the McDonald's-based borkage to bring you news of a Windows desktop ... read more

How to design an OS for the future

The problem is, our current computing and smartphone operating systems (Windows, Linux ... I can run some original Xbox games from 18 years ago on a modern Xbox One. I can play ancient video ... read more

Giving It All Away

Linus Torvalds ... Sun Microsystems. At Linux Journal, Hughes has a Web server running Linux on a 486 that gets 150,000 hits and transfers from 800 megabytes to a gigabyte of information daily. This, ... read more

12 obsolete technologies Americans still use

But for some consumers right here in America, ancient technologies are still a ... a huge improvement over running to the nearest phone to return a page. Despite the huge popularity of mobile ... read more

Hitting the Books: The Y2K bug could come back sooner than you think

Computer timekeeping has all the ancient problems of keeping a calendar in sync with the planet plus the modern limitations of binary ... time beneath them is still there. If you're running any flavor ... read more