Chinese military to replace Windows OS amid fears of US hacking

Re:Chinese military to replace Windows OS amid fears of US h... by PatrolX on Tuesday May 28, 2019 @03:49PM (#20033665)

I often test the latest Linux distros on crappy old hardware (and new hardware) just to see how compatible they are.

I recently tested Kubuntu 19.04 on a 20 year old desktop, it works perfectly and even had third-party drivers for the video card.

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Re:Chinese military to replace Windows OS amid fears of US h... by lolc on Tuesday May 28, 2019 @04:42PM (#20034173)

I find this hard to believe because a desktop of 1999 would only have around 256 MiB of RAM.

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Re:Chinese military to replace Windows OS amid fears of US h... by officeplant on Wednesday May 29, 2019 @12:07PM (#20041895)

My friends dual Pentium Pro system is capped out at 2GB of ram. Many older machines got maxed out ram wise if you bothered to upgrade them at all when previous gen ram goes super cheap.

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Re:Chinese military to replace Windows OS amid fears of US h... by Wowfunhappy on Tuesday May 28, 2019 @11:03PM (#20036526)

My experience has been that Linux works better on old hardware than new hardware.

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