Resurrecting an old end-of-life Chromebook using Linux

My wife’s old Chromebook was no longer receiving updates. Its 16 GB of eMMC storage, coupled with its 2 GB of RAM and Intel Atom 1.04 GHz processor, meant that most people would regard the hardware as obsolete. It was barely able to open a browser window without crawling to a halt. My wife thought it was destined for the great electronics warehouse in the sky, but I had other ideas.

After a day of tinkering (which involved having to open it up to remove the write protect screw and flashing new firmware, thanks to MrChromebox) I was able to install Lubuntu on it. It would probably run better with Puppy Linux, to be honest, but I didn’t think about that until it was too late and I’d already started to install the new OS.

Anyway, I am writing this post on Chromium on the old Chromebook. It’s not fast, not at all, but it is functional and will serve as a backup laptop if I ever need one.

While messing around, I decided to show my daughter some basic coding using the turtle, and we threw a little program at KTurtle where the turtle turned right by an increasing angle and moved forward an increasing distance each iteration. The image can be seen above.

I don’t know the name of this fractal. Could anyone help me out?