Posted by: Anonymous
[ip: 89.240.103.9]
on July 19, 2008 01:02 PM
It is certainly true that a Linux distro can breathe life into an old computer. My parents bought a brand new laptop because they assumed the old one had 'worn out'. They assumed it needed more memory or a bigger hard drive to keep it working and they asked me to see if I could sort it out. It was an old toshiba A30 that was running Win XP with numerous updates and anti viral software not to mention the malware and spyware grinding the whole system to a halt.
I copied all their documents and pictures onto a usb drive and wiped the hard drive and installed ubuntu. Unfortunately, there was an error loading the wireless driver so I tried sabayon linux instead: which is gentoo based. It did take a bit of scripting to get the wireless WEP key recognised as it doesn't work out of the box.
However, the low spec Linux machine is much less frustrating to use than the brand new Vista machine - it just works.
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Posted by: Anonymous [ip: 89.240.103.9] on July 19, 2008 01:02 PMI copied all their documents and pictures onto a usb drive and wiped the hard drive and installed ubuntu. Unfortunately, there was an error loading the wireless driver so I tried sabayon linux instead: which is gentoo based. It did take a bit of scripting to get the wireless WEP key recognised as it doesn't work out of the box.
However, the low spec Linux machine is much less frustrating to use than the brand new Vista machine - it just works.
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