Give your old laptops longer life...

Received an 8 year old laptop computer from a friend the other day. He was going to throw it away.

I looked at it. It had Windows 2000 on it.

Certainly not powerful enough for a Vista upgrade, I wiped the entire hard drive clean with a program called "Boot and Nuke." That took overnight.

Then, I installed Ubuntu Linux on it. (free)

That took 24 minutes.

All I use it for is the browser, but it works like a charm.

Just extended the life of an 8 year old machine.

Yes, I feel slightly disloyal to my former employer, but man, it works. What can I say?



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