Giving old gadgets, new life (or how to interrupt planned obsolescence)
05.02.12
Have a machine that shipped with Windows 95, but which doesn’t have the hardware to support Windows 98 (or Windows XP, or Windows 7). We’ve seen independent developers breathe new life into old gadgets time and time again thanks to unofficial software updates. For years, one of the rallying cries for Linux-based operating systems is that they can give new life to older
computers. Old hardware, new software. Here’s the thing though: I don’t really care as much as I used to. Because over the past few years something really amazing has happened.