A few weeks ago a friend gave me an old laptop they’d found (behind a sofa or something) and thought I ‘might like to do something with it’!
It was a rather ancient ‘Medion’ laptop (they were sold in the UK Woolworthes before they went bankrupt) and it had an original single core Celeron processor, 256MB of RAM and was running Windows XP (very slowly!).
I’ve always wanted to try a simple linux install and see what’s it like. Having only 256MB of RAM presented somewhat of a challenge as common Linux distros, like Ubuntu, really want 1GB (or at least 512MB). But I was determined to get Linux on this old laptop! [Read more…] about Revive Ancient PCs with Puppy Linux