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How to turn an old "junk" PC into a nice workstation

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spystyle:
If you are all set with M$, groovy. Do it. If your hardware runs it poorly this is a great alternative.

I have a Pentium 133 laptop with 24 MB RAM (those are only as fast as 486 desktop) and it ran 98 so slow it was inpractical and unusable (I am a speed freak) I am confident DeLi Linux would make it nice.

It's a shame Windows CE isn't available as a simple install disk, but these should be just as fast and just as usable - Linux has an alternative to every M$ software - like OpenOffice as an alternative to office. Firefox as a much better alternative to IE (I am using it to type this) and more - all free, so you don't have to steal or buy it.

Cheers,
Craig

ChadTower:

I'm tempted to change my kids' PC to Linux just so they aren't pigeonholed into MS stuff at school.  The problem is they often want to use the same apps at home that they use at school and those apps don't have Linux ports.   :(

clanggedin:
I have always wanted to build a linux box and this looks like the way to get started. I have 4 older pcs sitting in my storage at the office that would be great to run DSL.

Thanks for all the great info!

spystyle:
(I found a list of similar distros)

"Small or lightweight distributions for use with older machines"

http://tinyurl.com/y845l9

ChadTower:

Once you got Linux on those 4 PCs... what would you use them for?

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