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 While this laptop might seem old and out-of-date now, it is small and light.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

This is bad for Linux

[andrewman327]

Is this really the image we want Linux to have? I think the open source movement needs to strive to be the best. Linux has a lot to offer when compared to curent iterations of Windows, and I think that's where the focus should be.

Thank you for your time. {Leaves quietly}