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Recycling Vintage Alphas with Debian

Posted by timothy on from the be-your-own-curator dept.

robstah writes: "Vintage Alpha based systems, such as the DECstation are often available going cheap at auctions or free from a skip as companies 'upgrade' to PCs. As many goverments now want to prevent computers from ending up in landfill one solution is for us geeks to recycle. How? Installing Debian of course. Debian Planet has a great article on installing Debian on vintage Alphas."

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  1. Different approach by I+Think+You'll+Find · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    I think you'll find that vintage alphas are best recycled with gasoline.