Posted on 05/30/2003 2:30:03 AM PDT by chance33_98
Linux OS helps to green the planet
Non profit org revives old PCs
By INQUIRER staff: Thursday 29 May 2003, 11:36
INCREASING INTEREST in the Linux operating system is helping to avert ecological mayhem from old PCs, it has emerged. A report in today's Nikkei Business Daily said that a non profit Japanese organisation will install the Linux OS on old computers and pass them on to schools and to social welfare organisations after cleaning old data on the hard drives.
And, the report, said, the Reduce-Reuse-Recycle for Sustainable Society Organisation, which is a non profit organisation, aims to collect as many as 1,000 old PCs a month and re-cycle them.
The organisation has struck a deal with the Edge Co to provide it with discounted versions of the Japanese version of the Lindows operating system, says the Business Daily.
The move mirrors an earlier initiative from IBM Japan which aims to collect 200 old PCs and do a similar thing for the machines.
Older machines will run the Linux operating system quite comfortably but will creak at the weight of Voleware, unless, that is, Mr Vole Hisself decides to let us all have the 16MB Flash memory version of Windows 98.
Nah--a "river rat" is a nutria.
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