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[News] How Ubuntu, Debian, and Mandriva GNU/Linux Deal with Old PCs

  • Subject: [News] How Ubuntu, Debian, and Mandriva GNU/Linux Deal with Old PCs
  • From: Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Wed, 03 Mar 2010 08:28:22 +0000
  • Followup-to: comp.os.linux.advocacy
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Linux Free Operating Systems â Ubuntu, Debian, Mandriva Installations on an Old PC

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| For a long time I have always heard of Linux 
| the free operating system, and have enjoyed 
| many of the free applications that have been 
| ported over to the Windows platform. I 
| finally had a opportunity to take some 
| antique computers and install Linux onto 
| them, and found out how simple and sometimes 
| complicated it can be to get up and running 
| with it.
| 
| Linux really took hold when web hosting SQL 
| servers and HTTP hosting applications saved 
| companies thousands of dollars from paying 
| the Microsoft and Oracle corporations 
| connection fees that could easily going into 
| the thousands of dollars. So instead running 
| a linux server to serve up their databases 
| made much more economic sense and that is 
| why there has been a insurgence of the free 
| operating system over the last years.
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http://www.bestsyndication.com/?q=20100301_installing_free_linux_operating_system_ubuntu_debian_mandriva_fedora_on_an_old_pc.htm

Noteworthy Mandriva Cooker changes 15 February â 28 February 2010

http://artipc10.vub.ac.be/wordpress/mandriva/noteworthy-mandriva-cooker-changes-15-february-28-february-2010.html


Recent:

Should I give my old PC to a charity or school, or reuse it?

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| My wife recently finished her MA (analysis
| of audio data, thesis writing, etc) using
| an eight-year old Toshiba Portege running
| Crunchbang Linux. It starts faster than any
| of her colleagues' modern laptops (about a
| third of the time, with no virus check to
| make the first 30 minutes virtually
| useless), connects better to the wireless
| network at the university â
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http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2009/oct/14/old-computer-you-decide
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