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Older PCs and Linux

Submitted by: Troy Banther 05/02/2009 12:05 PM

My job at a local university is as a systems administrator. My primary responsibilities include building, managing Linux and OS X server.

One of the things I've seen is people tossing out relatively new personal computers so they can run the latest and greatest operating system from a vendor in northern California.

Various versions, called distributions, of Linux can run on these PCs without any problems and sometimes even better than the original operating system it had.

Extremely new Linux user friendly distributions include Ubuntu, Debian, Fedora, Mandriva and others. A web site which lists all the Linux distributions is distrowatch.com .

If you are serious about recycling and keeping PC equipment out of the local land fill then consider using Linux.

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I would like to congratulate the writer of this article for doing so. I have been pushing Linux for years. It works great on old systems, is free and will do anything a PC can do, many times better. There can be a learning curve but it is getting smaller and smaller.

The number of user groups who actively support and will actually answer questions are numerable. I live in Astoria and would say if you are in the area I will help you. dale(at)dalefvictor(dot)com or call me 503 325-6066.

If you have a working computer go to kubuntu.org and download a the newist version, put it into your CD in the computer and start your computer anew. Choose the Kubuntu version. This will do nothing to your hard drive unless you choose the to install the operating system on your computer. This is done after it comes up. When you are done looking at the system, reboot you will be prompted to take the disk out of the CD drive and then the computer will reboot as if you have done nothing.

All of the action is done in memory. If you like what you see get another hard drive and put it in and install Linux to it.

Posted by Dale F. Victor on August 18, 2009 8:40 PM

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