awesome-software-running-on-old-hardware
Abandonware on old hardware renders it unsecure, partially unusuable. Let's upgrade or replace it. (mirror)
https://github.com/arthurlutz/awesome-software-running-on-old-hardware
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Why
- awesome-lowtech
- Embodied Energy
- Open-source hardware - source_hardware_projects)
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💾 NAS
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How
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💻 Computers
- lubuntu - "Lubuntu has very low hardware requirements".
- How to Install lubuntu on Old and Very Old Computers?
- xubuntu - "It works well on older hardware too" [requirements](https://xubuntu.org/requirements/).
- Emmabuntu & lemmabuntu - it's [requirements](https://emmabuntus.sourceforge.io/mediawiki/index.php/Features) and [How to recondition old Boxes with Emmabuntüs](https://emmabuntus.sourceforge.io/mediawiki/index.php/How_to_recondition_old_Boxes_with_Emmabunt%C3%BCs).
- PepperMint - Peppermint OS is a Linux OS based on Lubuntu.
- PepperMint VS Windows XP
- GalliumOS - [devices](https://wiki.galliumos.org/Hardware_Compatibility)
- slitaz - Simple, fast and low resource Linux OS for servers & desktops.
- PrimTux (fr) - Education oriented distro.
- FreeDOS
- FUDOZA - a FreeDOS-based distribution that can boot from a floppy disk and converts older computers into educational tools for children.
- Emmabuntu & lemmabuntu - it's [requirements](https://emmabuntus.sourceforge.io/mediawiki/index.php/Features) and [How to recondition old Boxes with Emmabuntüs](https://emmabuntus.sourceforge.io/mediawiki/index.php/How_to_recondition_old_Boxes_with_Emmabunt%C3%BCs).
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🎧 Audio devices
- Arduino CD Player on IDE CDROM players
- Arduino CD Player on ATAPI devices - ATAPIDUINO
- AM/FM radio with added Bluetooth
- iPod with iPodLinux
- RockBox - [devices](https://www.rockbox.org/wiki/TargetStatus)
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🤳📱 Phones / Tablets
- Linux on Palm TE
- project
- project
- Android on Apple's iPhone - project sandcastle
- JanOS - Turn your phone into an IoT board, [devices](http://janos.io/device-list.html).
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⬆️⬇️ Routers
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🎮 Game consoles
- libretro/retroarch - [devices running emulators](https://retroarch.com/?page=platforms) extending game play for existing hardware.
- WiiBrew - On the Nintendo Wii.
- HomeBrew culture - On various game consoles.
- Nintendo 64 running Linux
- Sony's Playstation1 (PS1) running Linux (PSXLinux)
- Sony's Playstation2 (PS2) running Linux
- Sony's PSP running Linux
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📺 TVs
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🛰 GPS
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📖 e-reader
- Kobo alternative firmware : OcherBook
- Kindle 4 NT (non-touch) : fread.ink - A free as in freedom alternate operating system for electronic paper ebook readers.
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📷 Cameras
- MagicLantern - For Canon cameras (5D Mark II, 5D Mark III, 6D, 7D, 50D, 60D, 500D/T1i, 550D/T2i, 600D/T3i, 650D/T4i, 700D/T5i, 1100D/T3, EOS M.) and 26 other devices started3.
- CHDK - Canon Hack Development Kit
- Samsung NX300 : Firmware mods
- Leika
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⌚️ Watches
- AsteroidOS - [devices](https://asteroidos.org/install/).
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🏚 Internet of "Things"
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🔧 Software projects that maintain a version for old hardware
- Debian - It's [ports](https://www.debian.org/ports/), some continued by smaller communities.
- NetBSD ports - Target a lot of old platforms as well (8 ports "up to date", 49 ports "evolving at its own pace").
- Syncthing - Architectures supported : [64-bit (x86-64), 32-bit (x86-32), ARM, ARM64, MIPS, MIPS64, MIPS-LE, MIPS64-LE, PPC64, PPC64-LE, S/390x](https://syncthing.net/downloads/).
- Floodgap - maintains several things including Gopher stuff, [TenFourFox](http://www.floodgap.com/software/tenfourfox/) (a port of Firefox to PowerPC macOS), and [Classilla](http://www.floodgap.com/software/classilla/) for MacOS9.
- Emilia Pinball - A pincab device built on GNU/Linux [on 2004 PC](https://rzr.github.io/rzr-presentations/docs/pinball/#/9)
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🗄🗃 Hardware databases
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Hardware companies that publish code
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💻 Computers
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🎮 Game consoles
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Hardware companies that publish code
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💾 NAS
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🎧 Audio devices
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🤳📱 Phones / Tablets
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🔧 Software projects that maintain a version for old hardware
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📷 Cameras
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Why
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📺 TVs
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🏚 Internet of "Things"
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📖 e-reader
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🗄🗃 Hardware databases
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🛰 GPS
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⌚️ Watches
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License
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How
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⬆️⬇️ Routers
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