Silly question

Silly question

Posted Feb 26, 2006 1:39 UTC (Sun) by wildpossum (guest, #17744)
In reply to: Silly question by foo-bar
Parent article: Linux distros for older hardware (Linux.com)

Sometimes it's actually not easier.

My friend has an older laptop with a broken HD. He could buy a 3.5" HD or get a new laptop. Instead at my suggestion, he booted Puppy Linux on it and his daughter saves work to a flash drive. This works very well, the machine's batteries are dead anyway and it has to run off a power point so it's only used as a machine to edit the occasional file, export as RTF and continue on a Windows machine in school.

That was so easy to do that he's forgotten about his plan to get a new HD. So that's money saved which he can use elsewhere, hopefully to benefit his daughter. And old equipment delayed from going to the landfill, and an new laptop which doesn't have to be manufactured.

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