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The KDE Eco project advances sustainable software design in Free & Open Source Software.

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For toots posted before 1 November 2022, see https://mastodon.social/@BE4FOSS.

  • Opt out? Opt in? Opt Green!

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  • @d3Xt3r @Bro666

    KDE Plasma has been reported to work well on computers up 15 years old, and other FOSS projects run on devices even older than that!

    At our stand in April at the Umweltfestival, we had a Dell computer from 2003. Debian with LXQt ran on it, but the BeOS-based Haiku ran even more smoothly ... and many KDE apps have been ported to Haiku. So we could demo GCompris to families with kids on a device that is 21 years old.

    That is the power of transparency and user autonomy!

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  • @d3Xt3r @Bro666 These are, in fact, good examples of how Free Software makes it possible to extend hardware operating life. Though the "Opt Green" project falls under the KDE umbrella, the driving force of the project is that the inherent virtues of FOSS make it possible to support hardware for years and even decades after official support ends. And transparency and user autonomy mean you can contribute to make KDE/FOSS even better! That is simply not possible with proprietary software.

  • You don't need a new computer for up-to-date software ... just the right software!

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  • We will have old, otherwise unsupported #computers and #smartphones for visitors to try, as well as some new ones, all running #FreeSoftware.

    The oldest, Dell Latitude D600, would have become #eWaste in 2010. If it were human, today it could legally drink alcohol in the USA ... it is that old and, with a little patience, still quite usable!

    Come by to try it out :)

    @fsfe @kde @bitsundbaeumeberlin