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Debian on Old Hardware
Saturday, December 20, 2025
I recently revived an old laptop with an Intel i3, 4 GB RAM, and a standard disk drive by installing Debian. The motivation was simple: Windows had become unbearably slow on this machine, and I wanted to see how a modern Linux distribution would perform on limited hardware. From Windows to Xubuntu—and Beyond Initially, I replaced Windows with Xubuntu. The experience did improve, but not enough for my son to actually start using the laptop. After checking the hardware, I found that upgrading the RAM to 8 GB and replacing the hard drive with an SSD would cost under PKR 10,000. That seemed reasonable. …
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Bootstrap
Saturday, April 4, 2020
Bootstrap Links Hugo sites getting started Mike Dane tutorial on Youtube. Steps Created a git repo Check out blog project locally git clone https://github.com/HamdanKhan/blog.git hamdan.blog cd .. hugo new site hamdan.blog --force –force because we already created the blog folder from git clone. Added a theme git submodule add https://github.com/cntrump/hugo-notepadium.git themes/hugo-notepadium Theme is notepadium copy-paste its config.toml to project toml file. Created a disqus account, also setup https://hamdan-blog.disqus.com Config hamdan-blog as disqus shortcode in config.toml file. Folder summary, watch Mike Dane videos for details. …