Breathing Life Into Older Computers

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 While this laptop might seem old and out-of-date now, it is small and light.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.""

Comments

Re:Get the PUPPY!

[TubeSteak]

Yea, I know what you mean.

My old hardware can't handle Windows 3.1

This Linux thing sounds interesting

386SX/16

[vlakkies]

I may take the record here: I'm running Debian on a Dell 316LT. That is a 16 MHz 386SX laptop with 8MB of RAM and a 120 MB hard drive and a 10BaseT ethernet card that I needed to grind the end off to make it fit.

It doesn't really run Linux, it is more like a walk.

Re:I'm Not Cutting Edge But...

[orasio]

Watch out for thw inquisition. Giving free "damned" linux distros to churches might be a way to get promptly cremated, specially in some states.

Re:A long awaited distro

[jdgreen7]

This is actually a distribution that I think will find many fans. I have so much hardware I'd like to donate to my church or local teen center but I know wouldn't run WinXP.

You might find that your local church group will be upset by software named Damn Small Linux... Just a little heads up. :-)