When you get a shiny new powerful laptop, you might set your old one aside to gather dust or send it to the manufacturer for ...

One of the most subtle improvements was disk activity. Under Windows, the drive was constantly busy indexing, scanning, ...

Bodhi Linux has always held a soft spot in my heart. Not only is it a beautiful, user-friendly operating system, it reminds me of my earlier days with Linux. That is mostly because the default "Moshka ...

How about a little project to repurpose your end-of-life Win 10 PC to power a cheap Kubernetes cluster to save money, learn about Windows-to-Linux conversions, and how to break and fix cloud ...

If you have an old laptop sitting around collecting dust, then it's time to do your best Dr. Frankenstein impression and give it a new life. Even if your device doesn't perform the way it used to, it ...

Do you have a laptop that's either "pretty old" or "weird in some other way"? Did it ship without Windows from the factory, or did you flash its firmware with coreboot? You could help the Linux kernel ...

A lightweight Linux distribution can revive old hardware. Puppy Linux and Linux Lite achieve this in very different ways. Both of these distributions can be used for free. Do you have an old computer ...

Hi all I have an old Acer Travelmate 240 laptop and thought I might try Ubuntu on it. My last experience with installing Linux was with Red Hat 6 so I am way out of the loop. <BR><BR>Well, I did a ...

One year on Linux, two distros, a few tears, four desktop environments, and zero regrets about leaving Windows.