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Permacomputing

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"In a time where computing epitomizes industrial waste, permacomputing encourages the maximizing of hardware lifespans, minimizing energy use and focussing on the use of already available computational resources." (from the permacomputing wiki)

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From their intro post:

The fictional situation is the following: there has been some sort of social collapse and the Internet infrastructure is gone: there’s no more Internet for us. Now imagine that in this situation we still find value in our computers; how would we operate them now that we don’t have Internet?

I would like to analyze which Operating Systems would be suitable to for this imaginary scenario. In particular I would like to evaluate the Operating System at the following points:

  • Can I store a software repository with the programs that I or someone in my area may need?
  • Can I store the source code corresponding to the software repository so that I or someone else can fix potential bugs or extends the programs that we may need to use?
  • Can I create new installation images from the OS itself, so that I can install it in other computers?
  • Can I store the OS source code so that I or someone else can fix potential bugs or extend the OS funcionality / support and from it build installation images of the OS? And can I achieve all this offline?

There is also a NetBSD version

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