One person's trash is another's 'trashware' – the art of refurbing old computers
FOSS desk went to Red Hat's Devconf.cz conference – but that's what we found.
Andrea Perotti is a Platform Technical Account Manager for Red Hat in Milan, but in his spare time he's involved in running an Italian volunteer organization calledentitled"Change the world one PC at a time with trashware" and it was the single most inspiring panel we visited while we were at the event.
"Trashware" is a new term to us, at least as a positive thing; we aren't sure if it's an Italian neologism, but the only relevantwe found was on the Simple English Wikipedia.
Pragmatically, it recommends the Xfce edition of Linux Mint 21 for its relatively modest hardware requirements but long support life-cycle. Salient characteristics included looking good, which is important to appeal to non-technical folks, as well as the ability to do all administration from a point-and-click GUI, the easy installation of third-party drivers and apps – even if proprietary – and a long update cycle, so the machines will continue to receive security updates for years to come.
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