I have already talked about using some old hardware as a media server in order to re-use some of the hardware you have laying around. But what about even older hardware below the dual core models? Or even some old laptops since they have lower end parts over the desktop models? We all know that Microsoft will no longer support Windows XP and too old hardware to use Windows 7 or newer. Well its time to try a different OS, Linux. But Dark, isn't Linux a OS for very advance users? Well not so much anymore. There are tons of different distributions for Linux out there and here are a two that I have been messing with for older hardware.
Lubutu is a very compact system for older hardware and very easy to install with their graphic installer. If you have a machine that can not go past the old 4 gig memory limit you can load an older version of it I have found that version 12.04 was the last one that really works well for these machine that can not hold up to the bigger memory limits and once you have the system loaded just clicking the update to latest in the software manager will get the newest version loaded witch is 15.10. Now for the layout of the system is very basic and fits very well if the user is use to the XP style layout. For using the interest it has loaded by default Chromium this Linux Chrome web browser.
Now for the "newer" systems that have dual core and more then 4 gigs of ram I have been messing with Fedora. Its a cleaner version of Red Hat for home use and free. This works very well for the people that are use to the MAC type setup of the GUI. Installing is very easy as it walks you threw all the items. I have also found this works out of the box for those pesky HP Laptops with their Boardcom wireless drivers that always cause Linux users some headaches from time to time. This also has FireFox Mozilla loaded for web use which tons of people are use to. I have found it works really well for battery time on my HP DV5000 laptop. This OS is very usesfull and full of software since it was built on the Red Hat design for packages.
Now this wasn't a huge dive into Linux as there is so much to talk about each OS and how they work. The best thing to do, is download the package and do what is called a "Live-CD". What this lets you do is boot of the CD you just made and try the distro before you even install it to your PC. Giving you a chance to see if its right for you. This way you can go out and try many different types of Linux before you even install anything to your PC. Please check out this
link for more distros of Linux you can try.
I have already talked about using some old hardware as a media server in order to re-use some of the hardware you have laying around. But what about even older hardware below the dual core models? Or even some old laptops since they have lower end parts over the desktop models? We all know that Microsoft will no longer support Windows XP and too old hardware to use Windows 7 or newer. Well its time to try a different OS, Linux. But Dark, isn't Linux a OS for very advance users? Well not so much anymore. There are tons of different distributions for Linux out there and here are a two that I have been messing with for older hardware.
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