On Tue, Apr 29, 2025 at 10:42:25AM -0700, Richard England wrote: > I work with the Fedora Linux Magazine and this came across my > email. It might be something of interest to this group. Perhaps > even something to contribute to (?) They are attempting to make it > known that there is an alternative to Windows that will keep your > "older" computers useful when Micro$oft makes them "obsolete". > > https://endof10.org/
Good stuff. The trick is user training and data files; can we "skin" Linux so a Windoze user won't notice the change, or need to learn anything new? I would like to do that when I visit relatives. I can imagine a Linux Busybox replacement for Windows ORIGINAL and DOS that runs on REALLY OLD 8086 machines. However, it might be cheaper (in quantity) to pull the original 40 pin 8086 integrated circuit out of a PC-AT motherboard socket, replacing it with a 40-pin-compatible super-hybrid with on-board clock, 64 bit 4 GHz processor, 4 GB of RAM, and 128 GB SSD, all of which together could draw less power and use less silicon area than the original 8086 chip, RAM, and ROM. Driving a 640x480 display :-). "They laughed when I sat down at my PC-AT computer, but cried when it decrypted their Windows 11 password file." Keith L. -- Keith Lofstrom [email protected]
