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J4. Upgrading Old Computers

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Sheet J4 in the Free Range 'Community-Linux Training Centre' Project's 'Free and Open Source Systems Guide' series of handouts looks at Upgrading Old Computers – Recycling old technology with Gnu/Linux.

The computer world is obsessed with the utterly non-ecological trends of "bigger", "faster", and "newer"; much of the world's computer equipment is discarded not because it is broken, but because of the development of larger, more bloated software that requires faster computers to run it. This unit looks at the alternative option – recycling and upgrading old computer equipment to give it new uses.


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