Breathing Life Into Older Computers

Posted by Hemos on Monday November 28, 2005 @06:11AM from the arise-from-your-grave dept.

Aron writes "ASE Labs has written an article on using a light distribution of Linux, Damn Small Linux, to power an older computer. With Linux, older computers can be useful once again for many people. From the article: "The oldest computer I have is a Pentium 266 MMX laptop with 64MB of RAM. Most people would just consider this to be garbage and junk it, and if you brought this in for service where I work, I would agree with you. While this laptop might seem old and out-of-date now, it is small and light. I needed something I could easily carry around, so I figured I would see what I could salvage out of this dinosaur. Windows would have a hard time running on this low-spec laptop, but there are many distributions of Linux that will work exceptionally well.""

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Re:I'm Not Cutting Edge But... by ltbarcly · 2005-11-28 06:34 · Score: 0, Flamebait

Yes, that is sure to get the teens packed in there. Look kids! A basic word processor! Oh, you want to save your file to a disk? Just type "mount /dev/fd0 -tvfat /mnt/floppy". It's EASY and FUN!

Have you put any thought into how you are going to deal with the hundreds of teens who all want to use your 15 computers at once?