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Episode: 2257
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Title: HPR2257: Watt OS
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Source: https://hub.hackerpublicradio.org/ccdn.php?filename=/eps/hpr2257/hpr2257.mp3
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Transcribed: 2025-10-19 00:28:24
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This is HBR episode 2,257 entitled Watto S and in part on the series Hardware Brains.
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It is hosted by Tony Huma, Tony H1, 212 and in about 4 minutes long and Karim and exquisite flag.
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The summary is a short show about the Linux distro Watto S.
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Hello, I could public radio, this is Tony Hughes speaking from Blackpool in the UK.
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This is my first recording of the new year 2017.
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I was going to do it a few weeks ago but then fate landed me in hospital after a stroke.
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So I've only just got around to doing this.
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Just before that happened, I was playing around with an old ASA1 Aspire netbook.
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The very early one that only came with an 8GB SSD.
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I was having a look at it, it was still working all about, although the battery is knackered.
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But it's still functioning PC, a little 9 inch screen, it's quite nice actually.
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I'd upgraded it to 1.5 gig of RAM and it's got an Atom 1.6 processor.
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It will only take 32 bit operating systems, even though the processor is hyper threading
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and shows up as two cores in Linux, it's still only a 32 bit processor.
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So I was hunting around for a 32 bit operating system that would deploy in 8GB.
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And I came up with what OS, that's WA, WTOS, they do a 32 and a 64 gig operating system,
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which is based on a Ubuntu core, very minimal with an LXDE desktop environment.
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I had a hunt around and all the other distros needed a minimum of 10 gig hard drive space,
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but this one was saying it could get away with a quite bit less, so I decided to give it a go.
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And I installed it on the netbook and it worked.
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Gave a very clean install, very minimal install, there's very little software
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available after install, but it's only a pseudo app getaway or
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using certain app type package manager to add other software from the repositories.
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Full access to the repose, so if you want to and that way inclined with a little netbook,
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you can install LibreOffice and all the other software, but if you just want something that will
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get you online as a little traveling machine for accessing the internet and emails and stuff,
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WTOS fills the belt and can bring an old little netbook back to life, so I highly recommend it.
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I could say before installing WTOS, I had a bit of a break because I couldn't find an operating system
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that would work on the ASA Spire 1, but now I've got a little netbook that's working and is
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currently at the makerspace in Blackpool awaiting some use, so if you want to have a go at the
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installing or reinstalling an old netbook that you can't find any other operating system,
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to install on it because it's got too small the hard drive or you want something that's really
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ultra lightweight, give WTOS a go because it really is a superb little operating system.
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Well that's all from here in Blackpool, hopefully I'll get around to recording something I'll
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pursue, and happy listening. Thanks very much, bye.
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