Chromebooks will get 10 years of automatic updates

Re:Chromebooks will get 10 years of automatic updates by dredmorbius on Friday September 15, 2023 @10:34AM (#37523635)

SSD or HDD?

16 GB would be about 8-16x what the system I'm describing had.

How are you blacklisting sites? Pihole/DNS, or something within Firefox itself?

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Re:Chromebooks will get 10 years of automatic updates by amenhotep on Saturday September 16, 2023 @08:06AM (#37534085)

1 or 2 GB of RAM? Yeah, that would've been the problem. Old CPUs can handle more than people think but there's absolutely no getting away from modern memory demands.

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Re:Chromebooks will get 10 years of automatic updates by justinclift on Saturday September 16, 2023 @12:05PM (#37535994)

Yeah. 8GB of ram is pretty much the minimum usable amount these days. If you can get 8GB into an older machine (with an SSD), then it should work fine.

But 4GB? Pass.

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Re:Chromebooks will get 10 years of automatic updates by jules22 on Saturday September 16, 2023 @04:49PM (#37538538)

With the right distro, 4GB with just a HDD is quite fine for Chromebook style usage.

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Re:Chromebooks will get 10 years of automatic updates by niutech on Tuesday September 19, 2023 @06:22PM (#37577772)

I have a Lenovo Chromebook with 4GB and GalliumOS and it is still very capable with the latest Firefox.

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