RULE Project

RULE (Run Up-to-Date Linux Everywhere) is a project that aims to use up-to-date Linux software on old PCs (5 years old or more), by recompiling and changing some code to recent programs in order to make them use less resources so they can run conveniently.

The reasons

The principal advantages of using old PCs with up to date software are:

  • support for more up-to-date standards (HTML4, Java, etc.)
  • more secure to use because of patched security holes
  • old PCs may consume less energy than new ones, making them cheaper to use and reducing pollution
  • re-use PCs that would otherwise be discarded, thus reducing e-waste
  • PCs are not cheap, especially for third world or Eastern European countries, or for big volumes (for example a school needs a lot of PCs.)

Information about the project
  • The distributions of GNU/Linux that have been the focus for the project are Fedora Core and Red Hat, but users/developers of other distributions are welcomed.
  • The main activity of the RULE site is to test contributors' packages and provide user documentation and easy installation procedures.
gollark: So if you control all/the majority of GPS hosts on a server, you can selectively deny GPS service, or meddle with the returned coordinates and spoof positions!
gollark: Every GPS ping has the ID of its transmitting computer with it.
gollark: See, GPS on old (non-extremely-recent-CC:T) versions actually has a cool feature.
gollark: The arguably more correct way would be an actual arithmetic parser.
gollark: The easiest way to make what you want would just be to use `load`, provide an empty environment or one with only `math` and stuff in it, and not allow putting in control structures like `function` and `while` and whatever.

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