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.
My old computers that I still run _are_ 90s machines.
Well, technically the eee is '07. But it is 32bit and everything that entails.
Do you have any recommendations on resilient software and practices?
What sorts of techniques can be used to deal with those issues?