Save your old PC
REPAIR IT WITH LINUX
Don’t consign your old machines to the scrap heap just yet – Jonni Bidwell reckons they can still be put to work.
CREDIT: Magictorch
We’ve all got a PC or seven lurking in the basement gathering dust. And if LXF Towers is anything to go by, there may be enough spare parts to build several more. Yet the demands of modern operating systems, particularly those of Microsoft, make it seem that this old hardware is obsolete. Well, we’re here to tell you this is not true. Big-name Linux distributions might require hardware that’s less than a dozen years old, but there are plenty of distros that run quite happily on machines approaching 20.