Today's experiment: get an obsolete notebook functional again
Specs on this bad boy: 500 mhz Celeron, 128 MB RAM, 8 MB video card, 5 GB hard drive.
DVD drive.
And it's a Dell, from way back in the day before they started to make computers that sucked. Notable: the keyboard actually feels firmer and more sturdy than the new notebook PC i bought in February.
The XP experiment died after the update dragged in something that complained that the install was illegal. I didn't need the XP anyway, so I decided to install a nice low-end distro named SaxenOS, brought to you by one of these brilliant Linux coders who put together distributions in their spare time.
This thing would FLY on a modern machine, as it is pretty functional on this machine.
I can do light office work and go online. Maybe play some music and watch a video or two.
So far, decent. One laptop resurrected.
