On the topic of older PCs, Francie’s, first laptop, a 5-year old HP DV9000, was recently pressed back into service due to lack of resources at work (as if THAT’S anything new!). It’s one of the early Intel Centrino Duo systems with 2gig RAM. I decided to get it ready starting with a fresh install of a distro I’d seen called Crunchbang (#!). I was drawn to it by the claimed low resource requirements for running a modern/current kernel/base and it did not disappoint. I’d highly recommend this flavor of Linux to anyone looking for similar OS features. I’d summarize #! by saying that in the context of the current world of Linux DE fragmentation, it is to me at least, Debian done right.
Musings of a minor megalomaniac