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Linux 'Desktop' Still Too Geeky for Mainstream Users?

Tuesday, 26 May 2009 23:55 CNET

There are companies like Intel, Canonical, Novell, etc. that are desperately trying to make Linux-based personal computers easier to use...

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$100 card converts old PCs into Linux thin clients

Tuesday, 28 April 2009 06:46 LinuxDevices

Igel has released an add-in card that enables old desktop PCs to be turned into Linux thin clients on the cheap. The "Igel TC Card" costs $100 and requires a computer to have an available PCI slot and an IDE interface, the company says.

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Free to a Good Home: Junk

Friday, 10 April 2009 01:14 LinuxJournal

Article Source Linux Journal
April 10, 2009, 9:14 am

I was pricing a low-end desktop computer the other day. When configuring it, I noticed that if I added a four-year warranty, it would cost more than the entire system! We've really come to the point where computer hardware is like a plastic fork. If a tine breaks off, it gets thrown away. Sadly,...

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Linux distros for older hardware

Friday, 24 February 2006 08:00 Joe 'Zonker' Brockmeier

For these tests, I dug out Igor, an old PC that had been collecting dust in my closet. Igor is a Pentium II 233MHz machine with 64MB of RAM, an 8x CD-ROM drive, a 3GB hard drive, and an integrated ATI 3D Rage Pro video card with 4MB of video RAM. You can run Linux on older and slower machines, but this is the most under-powered machine I had available.

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