User Feedback :: On recycling old laptops

Same is true for USB devices, I have seen USB devices die fairly quickly. That is why we use frugal and run a read-only compressed image off these devices. Reading is not a problem. Then they act like a very fast cdrom. With frugal, you get many customizations, with myDSL, you also get an easy way for custom internet appliances without user intervention, including such things as predefined printers, desktop icons, default web pages, etc, etc.

Why do they burn out on writes??

Arent they solid state devices?

Brian
AwPhuch

Take a look at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flash_memory - it's to do with the way data is written; I believe old data isn't completely overwritten or something to that effect.

Any non-profits out there refurbishing used laptops with Linux?

I will be very soon!!

Chris

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