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monustoday at 7:08 AM3 repliesview on HN

The problem with old computers isn’t that they’re slow but fail randomly so they don’t need “smaller” Linux, they need more resiliency that can work with random RAM erros, corrupt disks, absurd CPU instruction failures.

The size was a 90s problem.


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LPisGoodtoday at 12:33 PM

What sorts of techniques can be used to deal with those issues?

shaknatoday at 10:36 AM

My old computers that I still run _are_ 90s machines.

Well, technically the eee is '07. But it is 32bit and everything that entails.

lionkortoday at 8:57 AM

Do you have any recommendations on resilient software and practices?