[Phillip Beall]

All,

I know some of you really like to squeeze every last year out of your computers.  And that is a thrifty thing to do.  I am guilty of collecting them instead of discarding them, although I have refurbished a few and given them to friends and family that were not as blessed as Kathy and I are.  Reading another news article I spotted this from February 2022 – Got a computer collecting dust? Google’s new software could bring it back to life.  When written the software was free and would breathe new life into computers dating back to 2010.  I wanted to pass the piece along and if any of you tries it, please report back here (or call me and I will report your findings) and let’s see if this has merit for the group.

Thanks,

Phillip Beall (W5EBC)

[Danial Beard]

Nay!   Even though they be old, worn to woof,  stunted and slow, I shall never surrender any innocent CPU who has well served to the vile wickedness of The Self-Styled Great god Google (unless absolutely unavoidable)!   If a man be of faint honor and the slightest of good sense he doth not consign even the marginally innocent unto the miden heap of the Evil One.   T’would be better to sling them unloved into the dank lair of the Slathering Beast From Redmond!   One just dasn’t do such deeds.

Even tho worn to woof and wear, even the most modest of devices (all the way back to i686 32 bit vintage) can be revived and reassigned duty (to a creditable standard) by numerous itterations and distributions of the universal workhorse of the internet — Linux!

Sadly, far too many brain-locked computer owners knee-jerk and squeal in horror thence flip their skirts over their heads at the mere casual mention of the stupendous power of the Mighty Torvalds Penguin.     Such ’tis to their loss, indeed it is.

Yet, for those brave of heart, I recommend the following happy jaunt through … the possibilities.

Fedora (my personal fav.)

Linux Mint (close second)

PCLinuxOS (Ayup.   made right here in Texas)

Debian (the raw source of sooooo many distros)

Ubuntu (BOOOOO!  Hiiiisssss!   Ubuntu is Swahili for, “I’m too scared to install real Linux!”)

Arch Linux  (Not for the faint of heart.   Bring your courage and entire tool box … and a good hot-wrench.)

Puppy Linux   (This fits on a thumb drive and would probably even run well on a TV remote.)

And if you absolutely itch to spend money on your OS … the King Of The Distros! (Insert droll drum roll and blasé fanfare here.)  The Mighty RedHat Enterprise Linux 10!   (Still in Beta, but RHEL 9 is proven and still supported)

If any shalt thus read and wouldst be wont to know, I will so then do a quick run-thru of Distros, Desktop Environments and assorted installable eye-candy goodies.

But, always beware the hideous Beast From Redmond and the cloying Cancer Of Cupertino.   They be evil too!

 

Fare thee well.

😛

 

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