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[News] Mass Revival of Old PCs with GNU/Linux

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ROAD TRIP!!!

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| He is working on  
| his end in Indiana to see if we can find someone to secure the stuff until we 
| can make arrangements to pick it up...but that's a lot to ask of someone on 
| short notice...   
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http://linuxlock.blogspot.com/2009/08/road-trip.html

Get a computer for under Â15!

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| Gary's response was straightforward.  Although he's had some exposure to free 
| software such as Linux and Open Office -- and so wasn't phased by that aspect 
| of things -- he felt uneasy at opening up computers and performing tasks such 
| as adding memory.  Could I help him?   
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http://www.lovemoney.com/news/ways-to-save/get-a-computer-for-under-15-3761.aspx


Recent:

5 Ways to Use Your Old PC

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| #1 Install Ubuntu or other distribution to experiment with Linux
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| If you haven't already, you could discover the world of free and open source
| computing by fiddling around with Linux. Within an hour or so, you can
| download and install Ubuntu, or one of the other thousands of distributions
| (distros) onto your old PC. You can even test it out before installing
| anything to your hard drive, using the live CD mode of some distros.
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http://itmanagement.earthweb.com/features/article.php/12297_3829431_1/5-Ways-to-Use-Your-Old-PC.htm


OLPC software to power aging PCs

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| It has been used by more than one million children on the XO laptop and has
| also been released as part of other operating systems. For example, it was
| bundled with releases of the Ubuntu and Fedora Linux systems.
|
| The latest release - Sugar on a Stick - allows anyone to run the software
| from a 1GB USB stick. It includes 40 programs, including a word processor,
| drawing application and games.
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/8117064.stm
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