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by scarface_74 1091 days ago
How well will that work with the modern web and modern web browsers?
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smoldesu 1091 days ago
Great! On paper it could handle Apache and NGINX like a charm, your modern web browsers would have no trouble accessing it.
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scarface_74 1091 days ago
What does that have to do with running a modern web browser on a device with 256MB RAM and a single core 500Mhz processor?
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smoldesu 1091 days ago
Nothing. Linux isn't a web browser.

It will still work just fine with your modern web browsers though, as a server.

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scarface_74 1091 days ago
So now I’m going to put an open source operating system on my first gen 256MB RAM iPad to run a web server and that’s the same functionality I had in 2010 when I was using it to browse the then modern web?
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smoldesu 1091 days ago
You could arrange it like that, sure. Webkit ships Linux builds, there are DEs that will give you a miserable but usable experience on those specs. If you really want to condemn yourself to a fate Apple doesn't support, there's no technical reason you couldn't.

Replacing the same functionality was never an inherent part of the deal though. There will never be Find My Linux or the Linux Store. The overall idea is that we put older hardware to use instead of recycling it for marginal returns on scrap. It's why they put "Reuse" before "Recycle" in the EPA maxim.

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scarface_74 1090 days ago
So your alternative to mean old Apple not allowing you to run Linux is to have a shitty experience running Linux on hardware that wouldn’t meet the needs of a modern consumer ?
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