Tuesday, July 7, 2009
Resurrect Your Old Machine
Do you have an older computer gathering dust? So why not bring the old girl back to life with a Linux distribution (distro). These distros are operating systems that run on a variety of machines and hardware configurations. They offer office apps, music and video, web browsing, email, etc. and are typically free of charge. I had an old Pentium III computer that ran Windows 98, which of course Microsoft no longer supports. I downloaded several Live CD's of the distros allowing me to try the operating system out without installing it, and found them all to be relatively user friendly. You can find Linux operating systems that work wonderfully on brand new computers as well as computers with as little as 64MB of RAM. Linux Distribution Chooser is a website designed to find the right operating system for you with just a few simple questions. Give it a try...that ancient computer is just an ugly coffee table right now anyway!
Puppy Linux
Ubuntu
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