Linux And Hand-Me-Down Computing
My father recently retired a 1-Ghz AMD (AMD) computer with 1 Gbyte of RAM that he'd built from mail-ordered parts. My first move: Wipe it clean, install Linux, and prepare it for an exercise in "hand-me-down computing."
"Hand-me-down computing" sounds like a derogatory term, but it really isn't. I can't count the number of times in the past decade that I've given away computer hardware that I know I won't be able to sell for much of anything. Some of it is perfectly good stuff -- it's just old, takes up space, and there's only so many test machines I can have lying around. Why not give it to someone else who can make the best of it?
Most such machines shipped with Windows but no longer have any of the original licensing material, so it makes sense to mop them down and install Linux.
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