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If you feel adventurous, try a Universal Blue variant on your older gear. I have a 14 yr old laptop which nicely handles Bluefin and Zirconium.

Cool. What system are you booting on that machine? It would be fun to bring up Neovim on such a thing and edit some code 😉

This is a Pandora 1GHz handheld Linux PC. Arm Cortex A8 inside of a TI DM3730 with 512MB of SDRAM. Its booting Alpine Linux with kernel version 6.20. Right now its all printing to a UART console. The cable for the screen ripped and I am waiting on a replacement

Remember the Zaurus?

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Go Linux! 🤘🏾

Keep it alive...

70% of my computers are ewaste scores. So much is thrown away by companies up here in the bay :(

The SoC is a TI DM3730. 1 GHz cortex A8

What are the specs? :o

It was obsolete before it even shipped

I'm a satisfied Xubuntu user running on a +10 year laptop!

Sad the Pandora didn't make it out of the gate the way it should have. That was some solid hardware.

Maybe take a look at those, compile a kernel, load it in to an existing system, and start changing code and see what it does. It will take a while but you'll learn if you keep going

Linux Kernel Development by Robert Love was where I got started, but that was a decade ago. Still a good read but a little outdated. The Linux Programming Interface is more modern but I haven't read much of it.

Whether or not you can run Linux on something is usually a question of the CPU architecture. x86, Arm, PowerPC, MIPS, etc. I am willing to bet that windows CE stuff ran on i386 hardware, you can compile a kernel for that. Not sure about PC104

So on an old laptop I have to uninstall Windows first, then install Linux and what kind of GB / RAM do I need? I don't know the first thing about this as you can see but I have a fab little ACER laptop/ tablet that wouldn't take Windows updates two years after I bought it in 2017!!

About a solid weekend to get it working. Uboot in NAND on this thing is ancient and has some quirks

This I gotta look into, and I hate Microsoft every day even more