Wow, three posts in one day!
I’ve been working on a very old laptop (Compaq Armada), and installing Ubuntu Linux on it. This little machine has just been collecting dust for the past few months, patiently waiting for me to install a working operating system.
With an old wireless card, I am now able to use this computer to access the internet anywhere in my house.
Why in the world would I want to do that? Well, I’m looking forward to download updates to this machine. Of course, I’m enough of a geeky nerd to like playing with a different OS. And finally, I really like giving this old machine new life for at least a while.
The machine is much too slow for any serious work, but it will give me a chance to work with something different. I may start converting some of my other old boxes to linux of one flavor or another. If I can find good video and picture software, this may replace windows on one of my everyday computers. Still too early to tell on that.
So far so good. I was able to post on my blog, and read email. Maybe with additional memory, this things wouldn’t be that slow either…. Nope, the processor is very slow.
Bryan, Ohio’s resident computer geek. 🙂 I have a little bit of that in me, though I haven’t taken a look at Linux for a long time now.
I already switched that computer to Puppy Linux (may change soon), and installed Ubuntu on a slightly newer machine. Now if I could just grow a few more hands, I could type on all the computers I have running.